Aisha Buhari to Garba Shehu, You are a disloyal traitor

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari has taken President’s media aide, Garba Shehu to the cleaners, accusing him of disloyalty and abandoning his responsibility and issuing presidential directive behind her husband, while tacitly asking him to resign.

Mrs Buhari who made this known in a statement on Wednesday accused Mamman Daura of issuing a directive to a presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, not to recognise her office.

The first lady who accused Mamman Daura and Mr Shehu of undermining her office said, rather than Shehu to face his job as the villa spokesman, he shifted his loyalty to cabals who have no stake in governance.

The statement reads thus:

“As spokesperson of the President, he has the onerous responsibility of managing the image of the President and all the good works that he is executing in the country. Rather than face this responsibility squarely, he has shifted his loyalty from the President to others who have no stake in the compact that the President signed with Nigerians on May 29, 2015 and 2019.

“To make matters worse, Mr. Shehu has presented himself to these people as a willing tool and executioner of their antics, from the corridors of power even to the level of interfering with the family affairs of the President. This should not be so. The blatant meddling in the affairs of a First Lady of a country is a continuation of the prodigal actions of those that he serves. We all remember that the chief proponent appropriated to himself and his family a part of the Presidential Villa, where he stayed for almost 4 years and when the time came for him to leave, he orchestrated and invaded my family’s privacy through a video circulated by Mamman’s Daughter, Fatima, the public was given the impression that on arrival into the country I was locked out of the villa by Mr. President. Garba Shehu as Villa Spokesperson, knew the truth and had the responsibility to set the records straight, but because his allegiance is somewhere else and his loyalty misplaced, he deliberately refused to clear the air and speak for the President who appointed him in the first place. Consequently, his action has shown a complete breakdown of trust between the First Family and him.

Aisha added, “Today, even without a budget, I am able to run my humanitarian programmes. In saner climes, Garba Shehu would have resigned immediately after going beyond his boundaries and powers.

“Garba Shehu needs to understand that this kind of behaviour will no longer be tolerated.