First lady Aisha Buhari on Tuesday took incoming first lady Oluremi Tinubu round some strategic areas of the official residence of the Presidential family in the Aso Rock Villa.
Mrs Buhari, who received Tinubu, explained that the Glass House in the villa is a transitional home of the first family.
She said the glass house is meant for presidents during the transition.
During the tour, journalists were not allowed access to some parts of the building.
Mrs Buhari said,
“The highly secured residential area of the president of the federal republic of Nigeria is strictly to serve as an accommodation for the president and members of the family.”
She also explained that the Glass House is a transit accommodation for outgoing presidents to pave the way for necessary renovations on the main house for the incoming president and his family.
Mrs Tinubu expressed appreciation to the first lady for the warm reception accorded her.
She promised to work tirelessly for the benefit of all Nigerians.
President Muhammadu Buhari will hand over leadership to President-elect Bola Tinubu on May 29.
Aisha Buhari, Nigeria’s first lady, has called for adequate investment in the country’s treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
Mr Buhari made the call on Wednesday when she received the beneficiaries of her free cardiovascular (heart) surgery at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The beneficiaries were at the Villa on a thank-you visit to the first lady for her assistance.
The first lady also expressed her desire to continue collaborating with other health sector development partners toward providing the necessary care to children of underprivileged families in Nigeria.
“Through my Aisha Buhari Foundation and the Future Assured, an idea was conceived to partner with other international heart surgeons from Italy to undertake free heart surgeries for Nigerians in need of such services,” Ms Buhari stated.
The first lady added;
“The mission was deliberate to provide medical care to the needy, especially children with critical heart conditions, and today we are able to celebrate with the beneficiaries after a successful operation.”
The chief medical director of the Federal Medical Centre Jabi, Sa’ad Ahmed, commended the first lady for a partnership with the Italian surgeons.
According to Mr Ahmed, the beneficiaries would have found it difficult to cope with the conditions without the intervention of the first lady.
A beneficiary, Murtala Dodo, lauded the first lady for resuscitating his life after battling the disease for a long time.
Ms Buhari had, on January 24, invited a team of cardiac surgeons from Italy to offer free heart surgery for less-privileged children in Nigeria
Aminu Mohammed, the 500 level student of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, has apologised for critising the First Lady, Aisha Buhari.
Mohammed had been arrested, arraigned and remanded before he was released on Friday night after Mrs Buhari withdrew the case against him.
In a tweet on his handle on Saturday, he said;
“I would like to use this medium to express my sincere apologies to those I’ve hurt especially our mother, Aisha Buhari. It was never my intention to hurt your feelings and Insha Allah I will change for the better. However, I’m also grateful for your forgiveness, thank u mama”.
Popular comedian and actor, Mr Macaroni has reacted to the alleged arrest of an undergraduate student of Federal University, Dutse, (FUD) Jigawa State, Aminu Mohammed, over a Twitter post where he alleged that First Lady, Aisha Buhari, was feeding fat on poor people’s money.
Commenting on the alleged arrest, Mr Macaroni said the First Lady is not God and should have taken her grievances to court.
The comedian who also averred that Aisha Buhari is “not bigger than the citizens of Nigeria or the law”, further stated that she should use “her power to serve people and not oppress them”.
Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has reportedly returned to Nigeria from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, after six months stay in the Middle- East nation.
Presidential sources told journalists that Mrs. Buhari returned to the country on Thursday morning.
The President’s wife quietly relocated abroad after one of her daughters’ wedding in September last year.
Questions have been raised by concerned Nigerians over her whereabouts but the presidency refused to make any comment on the matter.
However, Mrs. Buhari’s media aide, Aliyu Abdullahi, has refused to confirm the report of her return to the country.
Aliyu simply told journalists that he was not aware that the President’s wife has returned to the country from Dubai.
A top source disclosed on Tuesday that the First Lady has now relocated quietly to the UAE for over three months. No one knows when she would return to the country.
Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has been in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, since September after the wedding of her daughter, Hanan, and has therefore not been involved in any government activity, SaharaReporters has gathered.
We gathered that the First Lady is not in a hurry to return, despite spending over three months, as she reportedly stated that the Aso Rock Villa was not secure for her family.
This concern was triggered by a shooting incident which occurred in June and caused some panic among occupants of the Aso Villa.
It was reported that there was a crisis in Aso Villa after security details of the President’s wife removed Buhari’s Personal Assistant, Sabiu ‘Tunde’ Yusuf, from the place after he refused to embark on a 14-day isolation period upon returning from a trip to Lagos.
Shortly afterwards, the First Lady’s ADC, Usman Shugaba, in an attempt to apprehend Yusuf, reportedly fired gunshots but the President’s aide escaped to the residence of Mamman Daura where he spent the night.
Yusuf soon ordered the arrest of Aisha’s ADC and other security details in connivance with Buhari’s chief security officer. Buhari had ordered a probe into the alleged security breach inside the Presidential Villa.
Inside sources say the latest step by @NGRPresident could further stir bad blood among different power blocs in Aso Villa, especially with the First Lady.
It will be recalled that on September 4, Aisha Buhari held a flamboyant wedding for President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Hanan, and Mohammed Turad.
Apart from the opulence on display, event planners for the wedding were flown in from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to add colour and spice to the ceremony.
Earlier in August, the First Lady had also flown to Dubai in a private jet owned by billionaire Mohammed Indimi under the guise of a medical emergency to shop for luxury items ahead of the wedding.
Most of the items, including souvenirs used for the wedding occasion, were brought in from the Arabian country.
A top source disclosed on Tuesday that the First Lady has now relocated quietly to the UAE for over three months. No one knows when she would return to the country.
The Presidency source said, “Aisha Buhari has relocated quietly to Dubai. She has been going to the UAE even before the daughter’s wedding.
“Before the wedding, she also stayed there for months during lockdown, shopping and relaxing. But since the end of the wedding, she has been away owing to security concerns in the villa.”
Some Nigerians have noticed her disappearance from the public space for the past three months. Checks on her Twitter page shows she last tweeted in October.
It was gathered that occasionally, she issued statements announcing the distribution of palliatives but has never been seen at any official functions.
The September wedding, which had security personnel prohibiting guests from taking photographs, saw the event planners and other vendors flown in from Dubai pocketing huge amounts in United States dollars for their services.
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