*Aisha almost attacked me, broke door with metal chair – Daura’s daughter
President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, has given a rare insight into the power struggles at the State House, with details of how husband’s relatives physically confronted her.
Recall TheNewsGuru published a report detailing how Aisha in an interview with BBC Hausa, confirmed the authenticity of a video that circulated online last week, saying she was the woman seen speaking angrily in the footage.
The video, released in the wake of the rumour claiming President Muhammadu Buhari was going to take a second wife last Friday, had shown part of the First Lady, Aisha Buhari’s body while shouting on the need for the Dauras to leave an accommodation in the Villa.
Mrs Buhari has spoken of a “cabal” that has controlled her husband, a description of those in the powerful people in Buhari’s kitchen cabinet led by Mr Buhari’s nephew, Mamman Daura.
Speaking in Hausa in the new interview, Mrs Buhari said she was the person in the video and that she reacted after being denied access to parts of the villa by Mr Daura and his family.
The video according to reports was recorded by Mr Daura’s daughter, Fatima.
In a separate interview on BBC Hausa, Fatima opened can of warms on the power tussle in Aso Villa that led to the unfortunate incident.
In the 27-second audio clip also posted on the BBC Hausa Service website, Fatima said, “Her comments frightened me. She was hurling insults and shouting that she had never seen anything like it.
“I went back and took my (mobile) phone because if you went and said she acted the way she did, nobody would believe you (without evidence).
“She was making a lot of noise saying she was being oppressed. I filmed the encounter to show our parents and security officials for them to see in case something happens. From the way she was screaming, I even thought she would pick up something to hit us or something like that.”
In a written excerpt of the interview also pasted on the website, Fatima was quoted as giving a background to the crisis.
According to her, the face-off happened within a building within the Villa called the Glass House.
Adding that it was one out of several apartments within the villa, she said the President gave her father the building when he was elected as President in his first term.
After describing how close her father and the President are, she said, “Our father stayed there for three years until when the President’s son, Yusuf, had an accident and went to Germany for treatment.
“When he returned, the President told our father to move out of that apartment to go to another apartment called “House 8” also within the villa; that Yusuf was going to stay to continue with his treatment in the Glass House.”
The Glass House where Mamman Daura and his family were living is nearer to where Aisha Buhari lives.
She further explained that her parents were out of Nigeria when all these happened but her father gave instructions that she and her elder sister should go on a Saturday to move their belongings following the President’s instructions.
She further explained that they were putting their things together when all of a sudden, she heard noises from outside.
Fatima was quoted as saying, “I was in an inner room while my sister was in an outer one which is nearer to the main entrance to the apartment.”
She said the outer door was locked with a key which she said was the usual practice when they were indoors.
“When Aisha came and found the door was locked, ‘she used a metal chair to force the door open and nearly injured my sister”
This, she explained, was why she decided to record the incident so as to have proof of what transpired.