Buhari Should Bring His Wife Out Of The Kitchen - CAARD


More critisms trail the controversial remarks of  President Muhammadu Buhari about his wife, Aisha, where he said ''...my wife belongs to the kitchen''. The Centre for African Resources, Research and Development (CAARD) has thrown more weight behind the stance of thousands of Nigerians who has vehemently condemned Buhari in what is seen as sheer display of disregard for the place of the woman in the polity.

CARRD in a statement issued on Saturday in Lagos, maitained Aisha Buhari spoke the mind of many Nigerians.
In its words: “CARRD advises President Buhari to draw his wife out of the ‘kitchen and other rooms’ and address the issues raised by her in the interview, which represent the concerns of millions of Nigerians who don’t have as much access to him as her,” said Ismail Ibraheem, Chair, CARRD.

“When the chips are down, he belongs to her, and she belongs to him first and foremost, before us all.”

In the week that was, recall the wife of the president Aisha Buhari in a BBC chat expressed her disapproval of the crop of individuals serving in the Buhari -led administraton and threatened not to support his re-election come 2019 presidential election should he want to run.

Aisha's take has garnered alot of adherents such as Mr. Ibraheem, a senior lecturer at the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos. Who said: “CARRD shares the sentiments expressed by Mrs Buhari,” said 

“While we agree that the President has the inalienable right to respond to whatever comments his wife makes, within and without the ‘kitchen and ‘other rooms,’ we disagree with him over his choice of words, and the global and political environment where he said them.

“President Buhari made those comments – which millions within and without Nigeria have interpreted to be misogynist, sexist and ‘Trump-like’ – beside arguably the most powerful woman in the world, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to diplomatically-veiled consternation from her.

“CARRD is tempted to ask what the President and his team are doing seeking economic, security and political assistance from a country whose leader is also supposed to “belong to the kitchen et al.”

''CARRD noted that the president’s “kitchen-loving wife” was of inestimable political help to him and his party during the 2015 elections, mobilizing millions of women’s votes for them, and defending her husband from misogynist and sexist accusations from the then ruling party.''

“However, when she made the comments to the BBC about issues millions of Nigerians are honestly, but secretly and quietly worried about, she was immediately demoted and banished permanently to the ‘kitchen and other rooms.’

“While Mr. President is doing a yeoman’s job fighting corruption, we at CARRD wish to remind him that key members of his inner circle have been publicly accused of corruption, with facts, figures and dates to boot, to absolute silence, and sometimes outright denial by him.

“Indeed, as against his inaugural address vow, President Buhari now seems to belong to some particular persons, some of whom seem to be his worst enemies, judging by the catastrophic policy, media and attitudinal errors he seems to be committing in alarmingly high frequency lately.”

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