Aisha Buhari: Garba Shehu should have resigned for misconduct

Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, says Garba Shehu,
presidential spokesman, should have resigned for going beyond his
brief.

In a statement on Wednesday, she accused the presidential
spokesman of interfering in the affairs of the president’s
family.

“In saner climes, GarbaShehu would have resigned immediately
after going beyond his boundaries and powers,” she said in the
statement personally signed by her.

Aisha said Shehu has abandoned his responsibility of managing
the image of the president and 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,” she said.

She also accused Mamman Daura, the president’s nephew, of
orchestrating the invasion of her family’s privacy “when the time
came for him to leave” the part of the presidential villa he has
occupied over the years.

“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,” she said.

Aisha said Shehu’s behaviour “will no longer be tolerated,” and
that the presidential spokesman recently “waged a war on the first
family through an orchestrated media campaign of calumny by
sponsoring pseudo accounts to write and defame my children and
myself”.

“Based on Garba Shehu’s misguided sense of loyalty and inability
to stay true and loyal to one person or group, it has become
apparent that all trust has broken down between him and my family
due to the many embarrassments he has caused the Presidency and the
first family,” she said.

“We all have families to consider in our actions and therefore
it is in the best interest of all concerned for Garba Shehu to take
the advice of the authority, given to him sometimes in the first
week of November, 2019.”