Aisha Buhari has shared a video
on why presidents should listen to advice and not surround themselves with
people telling them “what they want to hear”.
The wife of President Muhammadu
Buhari took to Twitter on Friday to share the video of Julius Malema, an
influential South African politician, advising President Cyril Ramaphosa
against “prisoners”.
The development comes 72 hours
after she and her husband returned from a five-day trip to Saudi Arabia.
Buhari’s allies, including Maman Daura, and Isa Funtua, whom she had disagreed
with, were with the president while he was abroad.
In the video, Malema told
Ramaphosa, who has just been reelected, to avoid people who “thrive through
patronising presidents”.
He said: “We hope that you will
be a president of a country free government. There are people who thrive
through patronising presidents.
“They tell you all you want to
hear. And as a result, you’re unable to make informed decisions. Because you
surrender yourself with prisoners, and yes men and yes women.
“You need someone who is going to
be honest with you; the position you occupy needs someone who is going to be
honest with you because those who failed were told many a times that they were
right even when they were wrong.
“Even when the constitutional
courts told them you are wrong, those around them kept on telling them you’re
right. And that’s where they got it wrong.”
— Aisha M. Buhari (@aishambuhari) May 24, 2019
Aisha shared the video with
hashtags “listen to advice” and “team work”.
She has at various occasions
expressed her reservations about the “influential persons” in the current
administration.
Last year, she said a few people
were calling the shot in this administration at the expense of Nigerians who
brought it into power.
“Our votes were 15.4 million in
the last elections and after that only for us to be dominated by two people…
this is totally unacceptable,” she had said.
“If 15.4 million people can bring
in a government and only for the government to be dominated by two people or
three people, where are the men of Nigeria? Where are the Nigerian men? What
are you doing? Instead of them to come together and fight them, they keep
visiting them one after the other licking their shoes (I’m sorry to use those
words).”
In 2016, she told BBC Hausa that
Buhari’s government had been hijacked by only a “few people”.
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
No comments
Post a Comment
Kindly drop a comment below.
(Comments are moderated. Clean comments will be approved immediately)
Advert Enquires - Reach out to us at NigerianEye@gmail.com