Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Friday said that he has been exonerated by the recent blow up of President Muhammadu Buhari’ wife, Aisha, about her husband’s leadership.
The first lady said her husband packed his cabinet with people he barely knew, suggesting that the government had been hijacked.
Saraki, who had earlier in the year claimed that there is a ‘government within the government’ of President Buhari, said Mrs. Buhari’s reservation has proved him right.
Saraki’s comments were conveyed by a tweet posted by his media aide, Bamikole Omisore, on Friday morning.
Omisore said Buhari and those who criticised Saraki at the time he made the comments should understand that both the president’s wife and his principal meant well for the administration.
“Aisha Buhari and Bukola Saraki both have the best interest of President Buhari at heart,” Omisore said in the tweet.
Omisore further expanded on his principal’s position in a telephone interview with Premium Times on Friday morning, saying Saraki still strongly believes that Mr. Buhari has been sidelined by a few men in his government.
“It is true that we still believe that there’s a government within the government.”
“We do believe that the president has good intention and we’re behind him,” Omisore said. “But a situation where a few people are in charge does not bode well for the image and the future of our country.”
Omisore said recent development in which the Minister of Finance openly disagreed with the Governor of Central Bank on economic matters clearly showed that administration officials were taking directives from conflicting authorities.
“A situation where people that work within the executive say one thing and other people that work in the same administration say and even do another thing.
“It shows that people are getting directives from different authorities,” Omisore said.
“Mrs. Buhari is our mother and she has come out to say that the way things are being run, where APC manifesto has been abandoned and the party completely left out of governance, should not continue for too long,” Omisore said.
