Ekiti PDP Says Buhari's Wife Didn't Travel to US

Tue, Aug 9, 2016
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BREAKING NEWS, Politics

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THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is doubting the truthfulness of the recent trip of Aisha Buhari, wife of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to the United States of America.

The PDP,  in Ekiti State is also accusing the state’s All Progressives Congress, APC, of ignorance and mischief over its comment on the visit of Aisha to the United States of America.

The party pointed out that even the Presidency did not say that the wife of the president had travelled to the USA even though the APC had in a statement on Sunday said the eventual travelling of  Aisha to the United States had exposed Governor Ayodele Fayose as a “shameless liar.”

Jackson Adebayo, State publicity secretary of the PDP, issued a statement on Monday in Ado Ekiti, wondering why no television station reported her departure from Nigeria and her arrival in the US, adding that the PDP would have ignored the APC and allowed those in the party to continue to wallow in their self-deceit.

“The question is, did she travel to USA or Qatar? If the Presidency has not been bold enough to tell Nigerians that Mrs. Aisha Buhari travelled to the USA on official visit, only a party of scammers like the APC will go on the rooftops to celebrate photoshoped pictures as evidence of visit to USA,’ the statement said.

The PDP said Aisha’s cooked up trip to the US did not erase the fact that her name was mentioned in the judgment delivered by the US District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, USA, in criminal No 1: 07CR209, that indicted the USA Congressman Williams Jefferson.

“Most importantly, Nigerians have witnessed more heinous forgeries from the APC, one of them being pictorial claim that President Buhari (as the APC presidential candidate then) had an interview with Kemi Fadojutimi on ‘All Eyes on Africa’ TV show in London, whereas the interview was held in Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.

“However, it is important to point out that from all evidences, the pictures circulated as arrival of President Buhari’s wife at Dulles International Airport, Washington DC could have been taken at the Doha International Airport, Qatar. Even on the official website of George Mason University and US Institute of Peace, USA where the President’s wife was said to have attended events, there is nothing to show that she attended any event in the two institutions.

“We have seen pictures of Wife of the Senate President, Toyin Saraki with President Barrack Obama’s wife, Michelle. We also saw pictures of Mrs. Patience Jonathan with Michelle Obama when she visited the USA. Where are Aisha Buhari’s pictures with the First Lady of USA and major government officials from the country? Or could she have arrived and departed from the USA like a spirit?” the statement said.

— Aug. 9, 2016 @ 1:40 GMT

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