President Buhari’s daughter-in-regulation graduates from UK varsity

President Buhari’s daughter-in-regulation graduates from UK varsity.

Some civil society organizations, on Tuesday, defined as “insensitive” a post made by way of the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, on her Facebook web page celebrating her daughter-in-law’s graduation from a United Kingdom university.

They additionally urged Mrs Buhari to apologise to millions of Nigerian students stuck at domestic as the seven-month strike by using the Academic Staff Union of Universities lingers.

Mrs Buhari had published a photo of herself, her son, Yusuf, and his wife, Zahra, with a caption, “Congratulations to Mrs Zahra B. Buhari on your graduation with First Class Honors in Architectural Science. Wishing you all of the satisfactory.”

Nigerians, however, criticised her for the update.

In an interview with our correspondent on Tuesday, the spokesperson of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, Luka Binniyat, described the put up as ill-timed and known as on youths to call for an apology from Mrs Buhari.

He stated, “The motion of the First Lady portrays the sort of arrogance, insensitivity and absence of respect for the teeming Nigerian youths, specially university students who are underneath severe frustration, because her husband has refused to do the requisite.

“But she came out in reality to sneer at the other Nigeria youths by using announcing ‘we don’t care what you’re going thru. Look, our youngsters are already doing properly, you can as properly live for many years at home. It will now not have an effect on our kids.’ She symbolises many different top functionaries of this government who have their kids in comparable colleges.

“What the First Lady did is not only an assault on the sensibility of Nigerians. It is also an insult to the collective well-being of the future of our children. So, all well-meaning people should protest and ask that she give a full apology and that her husband must be forced to take the right actions to return children to school.”

On his part, the Executive Director of Adopt A Goal Initiative, Mr Ariyo-Dare Atoye, told The PUNCH that such behaviour should be discouraged.

Atoye said, “Nigerians do not only deserve a public apology from the first lady or the first family. But such an attitude should be resoundingly condemned.

“This should be an eye opener ahead of the 2023 elections, that we must elect leaders who will demonstrate in practical terms or who have demonstrated in practical terms, that they are committed to Nigeria and the Nigerian goal because what we’ve seen done by this first family is not just appalling.

“It is shameful. For millions of students to be at home without education, and the first family to come out to celebrate the graduation of their member outside the shores of Nigeria is quite embarrassing.”

This is not the first time the First Lady will be drawing the ire of Nigerians over her social media updates.

The PUNCH reported that Mrs Buhari, in September 2020, came under fire after pictures of her daughter’s wedding surfaced on the internet.