Former presidential candidate and
publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, has written an open letter to Aisha
Buhari.
This followed her tactic support
for Senator Isah Misau’s suggestion that her husband’s government has been
taken over by cabal.
She reposted two videos by
Senator Misau and Senator Ben Bruce, on her verified Instagram and Twitter
pages.
The lawmakers openly accused
President Buhari of appointing incompetent people because they “belong to the
cabal”.
Her posts have attracted
hundreds of comments, with majority noting that she did the right thing.
On Saturday, Dele said he has
never seen any wife of a Nigerian President who would openly criticise a
government in which she is a major beneficiary.
His letter reads in parts, “I’m
even more surprised that you would voluntarily endorse and promote videos that
criticised your government on social media. You may not know it but you’re
setting new standards in our country. You shall be called a quintessential
pacesetter, when tomorrow comes.
“I have no doubt that no matter
what, when all is said and done, and the present administration is long gone,
you would have left behind a positive enduring legacy, an epitome of womanhood
and wifely rectitude. My prayer continues to be that we will be able to say the
same of your husband, our dear President Muhammadu Buhari, notwithstanding the
fact that he now has little time to address and redress so many shortcomings.
“I’m certain that if your husband
had listened to your wise counsel much earlier he would have, probably, averted
the mess in which he is currently enmeshed.
“Your husband rode to power with
so much love and goodwill, the type we’ve not experienced since June 12, 1993,
when Chief Moshood Abiola won the Presidential election, fair and square. The
expectations were very high, in a similar fashion, in 2015, when majority of
the voters, including former critics of your husband chose to support or vote
for him.
“His was a miraculous
resurrection. No one expected him to waste such humongous goodwill at all and,
nevertheless, not so soon after his return to power. But before we blinked our
eyes, things had started falling apart. It took forever to assemble his team.
And when he finally did, many wondered why they could not have been selected
much earlier, given the nature and calibre of people selected.
“Indeed, it was as if Nigerians
expected that your choices were going to descend from heaven and some angels
were going to be appointed. The government started losing steam and stamina
from that moment.
“Not just that. Your husband’s
ruling Party, APC, started a war of attrition in the National Assembly. Some of
his biggest supporters were suddenly pounced upon and humiliated publicly while
your husband kept a straight poker face, as if he knew nothing or it was not
any of his business.
“You blew me apart when you found
your voice and spoke up openly and candidly and lamented the way your husband’s
government was shattering into smithereens. You were in a position to know, and
very right to tell the whole world, that your husband was not in charge and
that if the situation continued unabated, you were not likely to support his
second term bid.
“Though you were told to mind
your own business at the time, the point had been made so eloquently and
poignantly. Today, and looking back, it seems, you’re indeed a prophet without
honour at home. Everything you said has become gospel truth.
“Today, the chickens have come
home to roost. It appears the President has suddenly woken up from his slumber
or maybe the mask of the evildoers has suddenly been lifted and the President
we all voted for has come back from the deep.
“Our President is now under
pressure to reach out frantically, and desperately, to the same people who were
used and dumped after that landmark election in 2015.
“The same people you pleaded for
and urged should be absorbed and assimilated into an all-inclusive government
of patriots who worked to enthrone democratic principles and the change
philosophy you became known as the apostle of.”
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