Former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, has knocked wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, for purportedly choosing a bad medium to give her husband a good advice.
Mrs. Buhari told the BBC in an interview published on Friday that she might not back her husband in the next election unless he shakes up his government.
“He is yet to tell me but I have decided as his wife, that if things continue like this up to 2019, I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote like I did before. I will never do it again,” she said.
President Muhammadu Buhari, however, dismissed his wife’s criticism, saying he had “superior knowledge” about running a government.
“I don’t know exactly what party my wife belongs to. Actually she belongs in the kitchen, the living room and the other rooms in my house,” Buhari told reporters with a chuckle after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
According to Owie, Mrs. Buhari should have expressed her concerns to the President at home, even if it means during bedtime.
He, however, added, that if his wife does a similar thing like the President’s wife, he would have sent the woman packing to her father’s house.
“Aisha is right in criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments, but the medium she adopted is very wrong. Such advice from a wife to a husband should be given at Bed time and not to the hearing of anybody.
“If a wife does that to me, the woman will return to her parent’s house within 24 hours of that statement. A Benin parable says- Only one’s enemy that will advise one in the presence of The Oba in council,” the politician said.
