President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, on Saturday said she was on a week-long visit to the United States of America to hold discussions with aid organizations on how to help the women and children facing starvation in the north eastern part of Nigeria.
Mrs. Buhari spoke in an interview with the Hausa service of the Voice of America, VOA.
On why she sued Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state, she said: “she sued Fayose, because he attacked her for no reason, while also raising false allegations against her.
"Fayose had been insulting her and the president since during the 2015 campaign.
“At the time, he was not the only one insulting us, but people felt that it was just campaign,” Mrs. Buhari said.
“After the election, which we won and they lost, everyone else moved on except him and he extended his insults to me.
“I did not run for president. I am a married woman and I have never called his name. I never knew him. But as governor and chief executive, he kept insulting and raising false allegations against me, I have to respond and I decided to go to court.
“He made allegations over what he said I did here in the US, even though I have never met the people he mentioned.”
Fayose and his allies had dared Mrs. Buhari to visit the United States after he falsely accused her of having been indicted in the famous William Jefferson bribery scandal.
Isaac Nobenz
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