President Buhari, His wife Aisha And The Blind Bias Of Nigerians

So I woke up this morning to a lot of talk about "the other room". It was all over social media and I kept asking what's this " other room" talk that's going around?. As I read many more posts on the matter, it became clear it had to do with the Nigerian President Buhari. And I was like "OK, what has he said now?" 
So I did the next logical thing, I googled to see what's up. 
I saw that the presidents wife Aisha Buhari granted an interview to BBC Hausa were she bashed the president and his entire administration, allegedly.
People were saying (the news going about) She said his administration has been basically hijacked by people who were not with him from the start and she wouldn't vote for him in the next elections if this continued. Hmm.
I went further and found a full text of her interview.



This is the full text of her controversial interview with BBC Hausa. 

BBC Hausa: It has been One and a half years since President Muhammadu Buhari came into power, a lot of people are expressing their unhappiness over the way few acquaintance of the President have hijacked power while neglecting people that work for his success. Like we have promised, here is how the interview with Aisha Buhari and Naziru Maka’ilu from Abuja goes.
BBC Hausa: People have goodwill towards President Muhammadu Buhari, especially looking at the things he did before, but since coming into power things have not been working the way they should, what do you thing is the cause?
Aisha Buhari: I am not a government official, but in my opinion as a woman, a mother, what I think is it is well known that the first 4 years are not going to be easy. Firstly, it was people that brought the government into power. More than half of those people are not appointed into the government. Some people that are not politicians, not professionals were brought into the government. They don’t even know what we said we want and what we don’t during the campaign. They even come out and say to people we are not politicians, but they are occupying the offices meant for politicians. Some have parted with their wives, some lost their children lost, some women too have parted with their husbands because of politics, a lot happened during the time. The way things are going I too I am not happy. We are just starting, we have not finished. Some people that worked for the government have been appointed. But those heading government agencies you can find one fighting his state governor, they contested together during election one in APC while in PDP.
BBC Hausa: Who are those doing these kinds of things?
Aisha Buhari: Everybody knows them. Those people should know that people voted singly. Even Buhari too had one vote. Nobody voted 5 times. 15.429 Million People. That one that people are thinking too, he had only some 2 or 3 people. I am pleading to them to have the people at heart and embrace everybody so that we can all move together. Not even now in 2016 or 17, lot of people are creating divisions within the APC, which is our source of concern. They think they have worked for the government while those appointed some of them had no voter’s card. What I fear is uprising of 15.4 million people.
BBC Hausa: Is the President aware some people are subverting his government?
Aisha Buhari: Whether he knows or he do not, those that voted for him knows.
BBC Hausa: But you are the most closest to him, did you tell him?
Aisha Buhari: There is nothing I can tell him, he is seeing things himself. Out of the people he has appointed, take 50, 45 of them I don’t know them. Perhaps he doesn’t know them too. I have been living with him for 27 years.
BBC Hausa: Do you think there are some people that are dictating to the President things to do, not him?
Aisha Buhari: That is what I am saying, those that know they don’t have voters card, they should give chance to those that have, they are the ones that struggled and knows what we want to do. Some of them if you go to a meeting with them they will tell you, we are not politicians, if somebody is wise, they will not accept to take any political office. They didn’t even work for it. Even if you are asked to, you should say it is not my profession. Those places not headed by politicians will cause people discontent.
BBC Hausa: One would wonder to hear you say some people have hijacked the government without him knowing, but who do you think are those people?
Aisha Buhari: I don’t know them, I don’t know them. I don’t know them
BBC Hausa: But some people are calling names, saying 2 or 3 are the ones, do you that as well?
Aisha Buhari: Yes I agree. Because of those appointed apart from Fashola, Ameachi and some others, not much, I don’t know them, most of us too don’t know them, and he too does not know them
BBC Hausa: One would wonder that Buhari is not the one charge knowing him as a person who had leadership experiences, people would not believe
Aisha Buhari: Yes it is surprising; nobody thought it is going to be like this. But now that it is so…sometimes when one is doing something wrong without him knowing, but when people talk to them, they should listen. Because in the future, whether he is going to contest or not, it is that same people that would vote for APC. We hope those people don’t come back, and everybody don’t hope so too
BBC Hausa: You said “Whether he is going to contest in the future or not”, has he disclose it to you whether he is standing or not?
Aisha Buhari: He didn’t tell me, but I have made up my mind.
Translated by www.nishadi.tv

Then Buhari reacted in Berlin Yesterday according to The Associated Press, he reportedly laughed off her allegations by saying  

"I don't know which party my wife belongs to, but she belongs to my kitchen and my living room and the other room."

'His comments to reporters in Germany promoted German Chancellor Angela Merkel, standing at his side, to give him a short glare and then laugh," Associated Press reports.

Buhari also said he hopes his wife will remember that he ran for president three times before succeeding on the fourth effort.

 "So 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."

Credit:  The Associated Press

Now am enlightened and I have to drop my opinion on the matter.

Fellow Nigerians, I understand that the lot of us have issues with the way Buhari is handling the economy, but does that mean we should go on a blind rant about his comments? You all are saying he is demeaning women, he is a misogynist. Common! 
He laughed it off! Did he seem serious to you? And even if, he said his wife! She herself wouldn't be with him if she didn't like the kitchen.
Many of you are here pointing fingers when you all beat beat your wives at home. Many wives in Nigeria don't even know where their husband work. Yes they have never been there! Are you men better? Do you know what his religion accepts? Many of you your wives call you sir! 
Is it because it is Buhari? All of you are screaming?
And besides, why did Aisha say such things about her husband? From what I read, she was mostly concerned about the people around her husband. So where did you all get your info, that she said she won't vote him? Haba Nigerians! 
Even if a husband is a serial killer, unless you want out of the marriage, why would a wife disgrace her husband in public? 
For those saying Aisha bashing Buhari is her telling the truth, I hope you experience your wives standing with public speaker and telling the world your shortcomings. Like your size, your arrival number, your dirty habit, and family secrets too. 

All our musicians are all singing about how low a woman is and yet you all dance to the songs in clubs..

Let it rest you all ain't better.