Aisha Buhari
Fatima, daughter of Mamman Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s
nephew, has accused the wife of the president of attacking her inside
the presidential villa in Abuja.
Commenting on a video where the first lady was seen complaining
about being denied access to her apartment, Fatima said she least
expected Buhari’s wife to act in a violent manner.
In the video which trended on Friday while the rumour mill was agog
that the president was getting married to Sadiya Umaru Farouq, minister
of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development,
the president’s wife was seen speaking in anger.
In a BBC Hausa interview monitored by TheCable, Fatima said she
recorded the video as a proof that Buhari’s wife confronted her
violently.
The incident happened in 2017.
“My name is Fatima. I am a daughter to Malam Mamman Daura… if
one reasons well, he or she will understand that it is not possible to
say that the wife of the president is denied access to her apartment but
let me give a context,” she said.
“The apartment in question is called the Glass House. You know
that there are several houses and apartments in the villa. When the
president got into office, he gave the Glass House to our father, Mamman
Daura.
“You all know that they are friends and are related, more so,
they grew up together like twins. When he became president, he gave the
Glasshouse to our dad and said he should stay there. Our dad stayed
there for three years now until when the president’s son, Yusuf, had an
accident and went to Germany for treatment.
“When he returned, the president told our dad to move out of
that apartment to an even bigger one in the villa, that Yusuf is going
to stay and be treated in the Glass House. The Glass House is closer to
the main presidential apartment and that will make easier access to him
by his mother. It is not in her apartment which is in the main
apartment.”
Fatima narrated what led to the incident that was captured in the
video, saying she recorded it to use as evidence against the first lady.
“(On that day) My mom and dad were not around. So, my dad
instructed me and my elder sister, both of us are working and we go to
work every morning, that we should come on a Saturday and move our
belongings to the new apartment the president instructed,” she said.
“We planned to park out then and have even concluded moving all
the things. All of a sudden, in the afternoon as we were busy on that
errand of packing our belongings when we heard noise from outside. I was
in an inner room in the house while my sister was in an outer one close
to the main gate of the apartment. So my sister went out before I could
come out.
“On getting there, it was the wife of the president. When she
came, the door was locked and she picked a metal chair and broke the
door. I have sent the picture to you. My sister that went out was almost
hit by the chair. She threw the chair which broke through the door and
almost hit my sister.
“I was so shocked and afraid of getting there because she was
shouting and reigning abuses words and saying we should move out of that
apartment. That she has never seen this kind of thing before. I then
went back and picked my phone because if one is to say that she acted
that way, no one would believe it without a proof. She has already been
saying a lot of things depicting that she is being suppressed.
“So I recorded it to show our parents and the security, so that
they will know the truth should anything happen. Because the way she
was raging and shouting, I was thinking that she would pick something
and hit us with it or something like that. That was why we recorded it.
Had it been we wanted to release the video, we would have done it
earlier. But you know if a video clip enters one or two hands, you can’t
control where it will get to.
“There are even other clips that have not been released, I will
send them to you to see how she was insulting the security and how she
drove them away saying who are they protecting and calling them bloody
idiots. Its all on the video clip. That was what happened.”
TheCable was unable to reach Suleiman Haruna, spokesman of the
first lady, as he neither responded to calls nor replied a text message
sent as of the time this report was filed.
The first lady has been very critical of Daura.
Source: TheCable