…Our voices for Binani’s victory must be heard. History has no place for cowards…
By Dr. Najaatu Muhammad.
Aisha Buhari is indeed personalising the issue of Aishatu Binani as the same thing happened when the latter contested the senate seat.
Aisha Buhari took Aishatu Binani all the way to the Supreme Court. What hurts me is the deception about empowering women and encouraging them to contest from president down. In the name of women a lot of money is siphoned like other areas. I wonder why there’s a ministry for Women Affairs; (thanks to Maryam Abacha)
We have always been our own enemies. Particularly the so-called western educated women.
I have been a victim of such envy when I contested and won to become the first female president of ABU Students’ Union and as senator representing Kano Central.
In fact, except for the Association of Women Journalists led by Halima Ben Umar, all the so-called women organizations including Jamiyar Matan Arewa worked against me, I won in spite of them.
This jealousy is at another level. Binani has made me very very proud. A Fulani Muslim woman to get to this level is something the North should showcase and celebrate but alas, it’s a PHD; Pull Her Down syndrome.
I can understand the timidity exhibited by Mrs Buhari, who is where she is by ascription being the wife of a president, surely that is NOT an achievement but Binani’s is a personal achievement.
Binani got there because she earned it. She beat several men including Ribadu to get to this level.
In any case, Ribadu has always been pushed like a 1 legged wheelbarrow. When he contest in the PDP he ran to Abuja to be crowned. The same thing is happening today. It’s such a shame that at his level he can’t even stand on his feet and fight like a man.
May Allah the Almighty be Binani’s pillar and I pray that those of us that are honestly and sincerely fighting the course of women interest should lend our voices to this tyranny. Power like any other thing on the surface of the earth is transient, if only Mrs Buhari has looked behind her she would have seen the Turais, the Maryam Abacha, the Dame and many more overtaken by the dust of history except for the legacies and monuments they left.
Ooo yes! We still use the Women Centre and the National Hospital. I am yet to see or hear of the Aisha Buhari legacy not even in Kaduna that has become her whom in the last 30 years.
Let Binani be.
Our voices for Binani’s victory must be heard. History has no place for cowards.