President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, Fatima, the daughter of Mamman Daura, 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 last Friday while the rumour mill
was agog that the president was getting married to the minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Sadiya Umaru Farouq, 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 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. Below is the
audio of the interview which is in Hausa.
CULLED FROM THE CABLE
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