There will be no First Lady Office in Buhari’s Administration
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd) has said he will not have an office for First Lady if elected president in 2015.
Buhari made this known in an interview in Kaduna on Saturday, insisting that although women would be a very important part of his administration, the office of the First lady would not be recognised and ministries, which are constitutional, will be allowed to operate on their own.
“I have the greatest respect for women. I was raised by my mother, as I lost my father when I was under six, so I know what a woman can do if given the chance.
“The [office of] First Lady, however, is not in the constitution, so there’s no official role for them. There is the Ministry of Women Affairs, and so on.”
He also addressed the lack of knowledge of the location of over 200 Chibok girls who were captured and are still in Boko Haram’s captivity, saying,
“Imagine a mother with a teenage daughter there and for seven months has no clue where she is, Roughly one year in their tummy and from the time they are born until they clock six, children tend to assume they know everything, but it is women, their mothers, who are responsible for them.”
