Aisha Buhari attacks Daily Trust over lampoon of daughter’s wedding

First Lady of the Federal Republic, Aisha Buhari, has taken a bite at a Daily Trust employee, Bulama Mustapha, for creating a cartoon to lampoon the lavish wedding of her daughter, Hanan.

Recall that on Friday, viral pictures of the marriage ceremony flooded the internet, with many Nigerians criticizing the elaborate wedding ceremony at a time many Nigerians were licking the wounds of the economic hardship occasioned by President Muhammadu Buhari government’s harsh economic policies.

Consequently, Daily Trust on Sunday published a cartoon showing the President’s wife holding pictures of the lavish ceremony in her hands and teasing it in the faces of suffering Nigerians wearing long and frustrating demeanours on their faces.

The cartoon was inspired by the First Lady’s several posts on Instagram where she displayed pictures of Hanan’s wedding.

In what came as a reaction to the lampoon, the First Lady held that the children of Nigerian leaders had the right to get married whether they were performing or not.

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Aisha’s spokesperson, Aliyu Abdullahi, told BBC Pidgin that Hanan’s wedding was not posted to rub it on Nigerians’ faces.

He said, “The cartoon of Mustapha Bulama trending is very unfair because the wedding wasn’t in anyway insensitive to what Nigerians are going through. In fact, because of that, Mrs Aisha Buhari held a meeting with her staff and told us she wants the wedding to be low key with no massive celebrations.

“The photo she posted of the couple for social media was to thank well-wishers and not to rub it on Nigerian faces.”

“This has further proved that your publication is toilet paper and should be trashed in the bottom pit of hell. Shame on you,” one of them said.

Abdul Ishaka, a supporter of the President wrote, “Dear Daily Trust Toilet Paper, What is really the meaning of this disgusting cartoon? This is pure evil and hate mongering….Aisha Buhari and her family did a very quiet wedding for their kid and you have a place in your dark heart to mock them?”