The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Friday said he had been vindicated by the recent outburst of President Muhammadu Buhari' wife, Aisha, about her husband's leadership.
The Senate President said the fact that Mrs. Buhari could come out to openly express reservations about her husband's appointees showed that his earlier argument that the government had been hijacked, was in good faith.
Sen. Saraki on June 27 had said some individuals within President Buhari's government were running a "government within the government".
"It has become clear that there is a government within the government of President Buhari who have seized apparatus of executive powers to pursue their nefarious agenda," Saraki said at the time.
However President Buhari pushed back against the comments, via his media aides describing them as a figment of Mr. Saraki's imagination.
But in an interview with the BBC, the First Lady Aisha Buhari appeared to agree with Sen. Saraki's position.
She criticised her husband's choices of cabinet members and heads of agencies.
The first lady said her husband packed his cabinet with people he barely knew, suggesting that the government had been hijacked.
She also said she may not support her husband's re-
election if the president failed to shake up his cabinet.
The Senate President statement was conveyed by a tweet posted by his media aide, Bamikole Omisore, on Friday morning.
Omisore equally said Nigerians should pay attention to the first lady statement because she's a mother for the whole country.
"Mrs. Buhari is our mother and she has come out to say that the way things are being run, where APC manifesto has been abandoned and the party completely left out of governance, should not continue for too long," Mr Omisore said.
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