Mosque in Farm Centre, Kano, speaking to the thousands of worshipers
immediately after the Jumaat prayer, said that security agencies should
arrest the wife of the president, Aisha Buhari over her interview in BBC
earlier this week “because (it) is capable of inciting millions of
Nigerians against her husband.”
According to THISDAY, the cleric said:
“We are sad about the interview granted by the wife of the
President. We believe that opposition members in the country are using
her against the government. Her statement is unfair and capable of
inciting violence. It is a threat to the peace of the country and we do
hope the security agencies will immediately arrest her.
“We believed that some ungrateful elements in the country are
using the wife of the president to tarnish the image of the president
and the country. Nigerians are not in her support.”
Aisha Buhari had said that President Buhari‘s administration had been hijacked by people that neither he nor she knows.
Responding to a question about his wife’s statement during a press
conference alongside German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, on Friday in
Germany, President Buhari said that he does not know which party his
wife belongs to, but she belongs to his kitchen, his living room, and
“the other room”.
“I claim superior knowledge over her and the rest of the
opposition because in the end, I have succeeded. It’s not easy to
satisfy the whole Nigerian opposition parties or to participate in the
government,”Buhari added.