My husband is a law-abiding citizen – Mrs Buhari

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Wife of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday said she was going to abide by the constitutional provisions in running the Office of the First Lady.

Mrs Buhari
Mrs Buhari

Mrs. Buhari who was confronted with questions on her husband’s position that the office was illegal, explained that her husband is a law-abiding citizen who would not breach any aspect of the constitution.

Although she denied her husband’s position on the matter, she added that if the office was not constitutionally prescribed, she would confine herself with assisting orphans, widows and the less privileged.

At a meeting to inaugurate the APC Women Presidential Campaign Initiative, Mrs. Buhari said women should join their husbands to mobilise the women at all levels to achieving success for the APC.

She said: “It is a well-known fact that women are the major voters and women constitute more than 50 per cent of the voters. As I am talking to you now, about 55 per cent of registered voters are women hence, it is imperative to have initiatives like this with a great capacity to mobilise fellow women at the grassroots.

“As a result, this meeting will plan campaign activities. It has been arranged according to zones and each zone will have a representative from the state”.

She reminded them that as leaders of the women in these zones “you will organise the women in the campaign, in accordance with the peculiar problems of the zone.

“Many people are carried away with the chant of Nigeria, ‘sai Buhari’. They don’t even know the party logo.

“So, we need our women leaders to go round and sensitive them on the party logo itself and how to thumb print so that the vote will not be invalid.

She urged them to embark on issue-based campaigns “without insults and character assassination because that defines the APC woman”.

Also speaking, Mrs Oludolapo Osibanjo, wife of the vice-presidential candidate urged women to pay more attention to what is happening in their homes and also emphatise with the families of the kidnapped Chibok girls.

“We have this opportunity to effect change, not only to change the things that are happening in this nation, we have the opportunity to change ourselves.

“When things are bad and there is nowhere to turn, it is the woman that suffer. When there is civil unrest or war, it is the women that suffer most. It is time for us to change, so, let us effect change”.

Inaugurating the committee, Chief Audu Ogbe charged the women to lend needed support to the party by lobbying families to vote for Buhari.

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