Press Release
*Aisha Buhari
“The THIRD
Force considers it morally repugnant and a slight on the sensibilities of
Nigerians that at a time when over 2,000 Nigerian lives have been reportedly
wasted and unaccounted for in the Zaria Shia massacre; at a time when Nigerians
are confronted with severe economic hardship, fuel scarcity and Nigeria’s worst
ever crash of the Naira against the dollar; at a time when Nigerians are
groaning under the yoke of what may be the worst Christmas celebration ever; at
a time when the scourge of Boko Haram attacks have overwhelmed the capacity of
our military to defend the territorial integrity of Nigeria Aisha Buhari, the
wife of the Nigerian president is throwing a lavish party that was not only
obscene in its opulence, but callous, wicked and insensitive to the plight of
millions of deprived Nigerians who are bearing the brunt of this government’s
record cluelessness, lack of direction and phantasmagoric policies.
*Mrs. Buhari arrives for the dinner party (informationvilla)
“What exactly are we celebrating? Has President Buhari’s government
achieved so much that a party of rice, pounded yam, fruit juices and malt
drinks organized for starving youths of the ruling All Progressives Congress
(APC) party is the priority of the moment? What happened to the IDP camps with
millions of displaced Nigerian citizens who have been reduced to beggars by a
government that failed them?
“Under Buhari , Nigeria ’s economy has suffered
terrible blows. Nigeria appears directionless; the right of citizens to free
speech is being threatened; our stock market is crashing; citizens are being
killed and their rights violated by the same authorities that swore to protect
them; our president is globetrotting like foreign trips are running out of
fashion; we wake up every day in a Nigeria where election promises are being
denied by the ruling party and return home to food left over by the movers and
shakers of the country. Yet here we are, organizing a party to immortalize the
folly. What disdain!