Aisha Buhari, who said this in an interview with the Hausa Service of the BBC, expressed worries at the efforts of some people to create division in the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“Many people have started dividing the leadership of the APC and that is really making us feel not too good,” Mrs. Buhari said in an interview with BBC Hausa.
A part of the interview was aired Tuesday. The full interview will be aired on Friday.
The first lady said those behind the crisis felt aggrieved that they laboured for, and helped the APC to power in 2015, but received no compensation.
“They are doing that because they felt have laboured for the party and deserved to be compensated,” Mrs. Buhari said. “People who do not have voters card are those who are given appointments and enjoying the government.”
Her unusually public remarks about politics came amid an unfolding clash between a former governor Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, and the national chairman of the APC, John Odigie-Oyegun.
She added: “Among all the people he selected, if he is asked among 50 people, he does not know 45. I don’t know them despite staying with him for 27 years”.
For those behind the crisis, which was affecting the administration, she said “What I am afraid for them is the rebellion of 15 million people”, ostensibly in reference to the number of the people who voted for the president.
Asked whether her husband knew those creating problems for his administration, Mr. Buhari said, “Whether he knows them or not, those who voted for him know. There is nothing I will tell him. He can see”.
When asked whether her husband planned to run for a second term in 2019, Mrs. Buhari said she did not know. But said for her personally, “I have made up my mind about that”.
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