Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari has come under criticism after she shared the graduation photos of her daughter-in-law across her social media pages on Tuesday.
Zahra Bayero-Buhari, who got married to President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf, in August 2021, graduated from a UK university on Tuesday.
Aisha’s critics berated her for being insensitive to the plights of Nigerian students who have been out of school for seven months due to the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Some of the responses to her post are as follows:
It is very insensitive for Aisha Buhari to be celebrating her daughter in-law’s graduation at a time when the universities where she is the first lady has been on strike for over 7 months now…
— 𝗖𝗵𝘂𝗸𝘀 | 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 (@realChuksIbe) September 21, 2022
Wow! It’s the insensitivity and audacity for me. Aisha Buhari and her family have destroyed every facet of Nigeria. And they are blatantly showing it and rubbing it in our faces that they don’t give a F**k! pic.twitter.com/u9mQH6mXXj
— Wealth Ambrose-Abudu (@JeffBro93113900) September 21, 2022
Among those who reacted to the First Lady’s post (comment section has, however, been moderated) included former minister in President Buhari’s cabinet, Solomon Dalung.
Dalung wrote: “The acceptable interpretation to say the least is an insult to the psyche of Nigerians. You used to stand with common people in the first tenure but this time around you have not only abandoned them but graduated into academy of tyranny. What makes her better than any other Nigerian child? Given the opportunity in foreign universities some would have graduated with Distinction. This is not only insensitive but disappointing my dear Wife of the President.”
