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Please don’t bring me gifts, Aisha Buhari tells Nigerians
Mrs Aisha Buhari, wife of Nigerian President, has called on those who always try to shower her with gift items to stop because she will never receive any of it.
Mrs Buhari who claimed that she never collected a dime from anybody during her husband’s presidential campaign, vowed that she was not also going to collect any from anyone even now her husband is the President nor in the future.
She is said to have made this assertion in Abuja on Wednesday during the inauguration of a new campaign against graft named, “Women Against Corruption”.
She said, “People have been trying to bring some gift items to me but I have not been collecting them. Right from when I was campaigning with the Wife of the Vice President for our husbands, we did not take a dime from anyone and we have continued like that till today. I have never collected any gift and I am not ready to do so even in the future.”
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Mrs Buhari was not too long ago described by her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari of belonging to the kitchen, the living room and the other room.
The president’s comment which many felt was nasty and insulting to women, came after she criticised the cabinet of her husband in a BBC Hausa interview, where she alleged that the President “does not know” most of the top officials he appointed, suggesting that his government has been hijacked.
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