“The Office of the First Lady is not in the constitution, so there’s no official role for them,” These were the exact words of general Mohammadu Buhari prior to the 2015 general elections, according to dailytrust.com. When he announced that the office of the "First lady" will cease to exist if he won the elections three things Happened :
Those who saw the office as a waste of public resources switched camps and aligned with him .Those who saw the "overbearing" influence of the former first lady screamed the messiah has come!!!!.Those who simply wanted GEJ out because of his wife found a leader in the retired general. Believe it or not that statement gave him a good number of votes.
However, Like the Promise of 20,000 megawatts vanished with a simple statement from Lai Mohammed and the Public assets declaration metamorphosed into an APC promise, the pledge not to have an office for the first Lady has all but disappeared.
The Punch Newspapers this week reported that unknown to public the Hajia Aisha Buhari who moved into the Villa before her husband had since taken over the office of the first lady with full parafenlia and retinue of aides.
The deception was further taken to another level when the President secretly appointed Hajo Sani as Senior Special assistant for an office he promised not to entertain under his administration.
Even when confronted with the facts Femi Adeshina and Garba Shehu were unable to provide explanations as to why they refused to announce the appointment until it was leaked to the public.The only change that has taken place is the change in nomenclature from first Lady to Wife of the President.
This post election change in behavioural pattern raises a lot of questions. Does changing goal post after election amounts to obtaining votes by false pretence? Does re defining electoral promises by one party after hoodwinking the other party to do its bidding amount to a betrayal of trust ? Does a man who could not keep his own words have the moral right to ask others to do so ?
Why will a President who has previously declared an office unconstitutional turn around to allocate public funds and appoint senior public officers to an office that he promised to scrap? For the antagonists I have these few words.... This thread is not about Wailing far from it
It's about asking a Party and an individual to keep the Promises and pledges they made to Nigerians It's about asking a man who many claim is a man of honour to do what is Honourable Is about asking all those who chanted change to see beyond party sentiments, ethnic or religious affiliation and stand for the truth even when it hurts. nairaland.com. There Is Godooooooooooo!
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