Aisha Criticises Buhari Over ‘Joke’ Asking Supporters To Cause Violence

President Muhammadu Buhari has once again come under the hammer of Mrs Aisha Yesufu, co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls movement, for allegedly inciting his supporters to violence during presidential campaign in Zamfara State.

President Buhari had been quoted as praying to God to grant the people bountiful harvest so they would feed well and cause “fitna” which is loosely translated in Arabic as “rebellion” “trouble” or “violence”.

Mr Festus Kayamo, spokesperson of the Buhari campaign organisation, had described the President’s statement as a joke, adding that those criticising Buhari “deliberately” took his remarks out of context.

But reacting in a video shared on social media, Yesufu described the statement credited to the President as unfortunate, adding that such words should not come out from the mouth of a true leader.

She added that Nigeria is bigger than Buhari and that no blood of any Nigerian will be spilled for the President’s ambition in the forthcoming general elections.

Yesufu said, “Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, I watched a clip of your campaign in Zamfara state and some of the words that you said were so unfortunate. It is unfortunate that a leader…a President of a nation would utter such words.

“Apart from being a leader, that one who is in his seventies, who is an elder, who is supposed to call people and caution them, would make such a statement.

“I want to read out your statement because I had to write it down so that I don’t miss anything when i am saying it. You said in Hausa “May God grant us bountiful harvest. I want everyone to eat to his fill…even if it is trouble, let us go and do it”.

“Mr President that is so unfortunate coming from you. With all the “fitna” that Zamfara people have had to face with you being an incompetent President? They have had to deal with that. Zamfara has turned into a mass grave, Zamfara is a killing field. Zamfara is where there is mass funeral all the time and you go there to say this without a word about the killings.

“Amaechi, in Port Harcourt, said the same thing. Let me tell you Mr President, my people have a saying that “when the praying mantis puts its hands together, it will put it on its heard.” Whatever trouble you’re looking for Mr President, you will carry it and you alone by the grace of God will carry it. We will not Mr President.”

“Nigeria is bigger than you are. Nigeria is greater than you are and i must tell you Mr President that, no single blood of Nigerian will be spilled for your ambition by the grace of God. This country that has given you so much, you have not deemed it fit to give it back one tenth of what it gave you. You have left people with hunger, you have left people with poverty, people with fear, people with pain, people grieving, people with anger, people disillusioned. Mr President, you will not carry our country to the brink and throw it down. We will stand and our voices by the grace of God will be heard. On Saturday Nigerians will speak and whatever language it is that they speak we would all hear. God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Nigeria is greater than anyone.”