Wife
of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has said that the money spent by
the Nigerian High Commission in the United Kingdom (UK) on the lounge
when she visited London recently was a far cry from the £32,000 landing
fees for private jets of former Nigerian First Ladies.
An online
news portal had in a recent report alleged that Aisha is swindling the
Nigerian High Commission by abusing her privilege anytime she travels to
the UK. The news portal showed some documents to buttress the claim.
One
of the documents showed that Mrs. Buhari was in London in October 2016
and claimed the High Commission allotted the sum of £10,000 for her
expenditures, including an extravagant VIP reception on her arrival at
the airport.
The memo showed that Aisha was booked to receive VIP
treatment at Windsor Suites at Heathrow that cost £1,500 per passenger.
She was then scheduled to attend an event in Brussels and other places
before returning to London.
But replying via a statement she
released through her Special Assistant on Media, Adebisi Olumide-Ajayi
and made available to newsmen, she lamented that the nonstop publication
of what according to her, are unfounded stories by the news portal
against her, has become worrisome.
“The High Commission has its
internal administrative procedure, and it is not within the purview of
the wife of the President to ask for diplomatic files.
“Furthermore,
that the said memo showed little or no knowledge of Her Excellency’s
itinerary proves the simple fact we earlier submitted that she had no
direct business with the embassy to warrant the accusation of waste or
corruption insinuated in the report.
“Part of the wife of the
President’s trips abroad are for her NGO, which is not funded by the
Government, and It is not uncommon to have stopover in Britain like any
other country as the case may be.
What was spent on my London trip is far cry from what ex First Ladies got, Aisha Buhari laments
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