Recently, the president of Nigeria has been misquoted through an answer given to a question at a conference with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel. The statement; My wife belongs to the kitchen, my living room, and the other room suddenly generated a hullabaloo, uproar, aggression on the internet and internationally as well. I must say president Buhari's words must have been misconstrued, misunderstood and misrepresented.
A wife belongs to the husband is the summary of his statement. That doesn't mean Aisha doesn't have a dream or cannot perform any administrative job. Do not deduce the fact that a woman is a home maker, and that has not stopped Aisha from empowering women and also making her personal dreams come true, ignoring the background of the duo, afterall she has an office that is functioning. Muhammadu Buhari said he doesn't know the party the wife belongs to, maybe a tactic to distract attention from her wife's statement that she wouldn't back him if he decides to contest in 2019 "if he doesn't shake up his cabinet".
How have we misplaced our priority? Buhari's statement referred to his home, Aisha's statement referred to Nigeria, so which is our utmost concern? The major problem Nigeria has is leadership, and leadership doesn't end in the president figure, its tentacle spreads across the ministers, senators, people in the administrative positions etc, and in a case where by a wife complains about the cabinet of her husband, then Nigeria has a long way to go in fighting corruption, battling economic crisis, waging war against terrorism and the various national issues, instead of capitalizing on where Aisha belongs to in her husband's house. Do not forget, Aisha must have gotten her details while performing her duty in the other room because most of these issues are almost always trashed in that room.
Why not place the priority right by knowing where Nigeria belongs to in the world, underdeveloped, developing or developed and ignore where Aisha Buhari belongs to in her husband's home. Nigerians are innocently or rather ignorantly suffering because of some ministerial appointments that were purposefully done by some party cabals who only have their personal interest at heart, the reason for the economic crisis. If I may cast our minds back to my post that says; we need experts to battle the war in Nigeria, not politicians that are not well grounded, and hence a complaint coming from the first lady of the country about such shouldn't be ignored.
Let's not be distracted from majority to minority. Buhari's statement is minor as it affects his home to what Aisha has pointed out in her statement " shake off cabinet". Nigerians' leadership must change hands for better administration to be put in place by ignoring frivolities and facing the real and cogent issues.
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