Aisha Buhari's BBC Interview: Should It Have Happened?

Our Wife of The President as he would have us call her has received praise and commendation from the strangest of quarters since she granted that interview to the BBC Hausa Service!
She has been praised by very strong elements within the opposition People's Democratic Party that it is even being suggested in some quarters that she would be handed the Presidential ticket of the PDP to contest against her husband in 2019.
For me, that's exactly the problem with the interview!
She threw her husband to the wolves and they are currently devouring him.
She showed tremendous courage in expressing her dissatisfaction with the way her Husband is running the Country.
However, it would have been better if another Buharist had criticized the Government this openly.
But the question is "Should She have done so"?
Folks will say that what she did was the height of female emancipation in Nigeria and indeed anywhere in the world.
But then, even in the United States of America, Michelle Obama did not come out to criticize President Obama when the American economy was struggling under him.
Even Melanie Trump is not openly criticizing Donald Trump inspite of his obvious gaffes.
I feel the Wife should be a pillar of support for the Husband and should support him through thick and thin.
I also feel that it's possible the First Lady had complained to the President about her dissatisfaction with the state of affairs in the country without getting a listening ear before she decided to make him hear at all costs.
However, as good as her intentions in granting the BBC interview might have been, she has succeeded in painting a bad picture of her husband as a man who doesn't listen to his wife and who doesn't respect her opinions: she has also painted her husband as one who is not in control of his immediate family.
Either way, Aisha Buhari's interview did her husband no favors at all!
To those who are hailing her, I hope you would be happy if your wife goes before the whole world to criticize you.
In my own opinion, the First Lady is clearly interested in the overall well being of the country and she showed it in the interview but that interview should have been granted by anybody else but her.
Finally, I wouldn't be happy if my wife openly criticizes me.
In fact, I'd be demoralized because I'd feel left alone and abandoned because she's the one who should constantly support me in the open regardless of whatever dissatisfactions she might have expressed in private but it should never come out in the open.
Sadly, this is exactly how the President would be feeling.

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  1. You see Aisha? She is not a good wife, despite the fact that we are talking about Buhari.

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