ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The outgoing First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has called for the application of certain privileges akin to the provision to wives of Presidents as against the existing position.
According to her, vehicles, sponsored medical treatments and provision of some stipends, among others that are due to former Presidents, should also be extended to their wives.
Mrs. Buhari said first ladies deserved these privileges just like their husbands or Presidents in office and out of office because when the pressure comes, nobody wants to know whether you are out of the villa or not.
Aisha Buhari spoke at the launching of a book in Abuja authored by the President of the Defence and Police Officers’ Wives Association (DEPOWA), Mrs. Vickie Anwuli Irabor, titled, “The Journey of a Military Wife”.
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Mrs. Buhari explaining why the privileges should be extended to first ladies, she said: “I married my husband as the wife of a former president. I am going in a few days as a wife of a former president a second time.
“They should consider us as former first ladies. They should incorporate the first ladies, give us some privileges that we deserve as first ladies, not just the former presidents”.
Commending Mrs. Vickie Irabor for the book, she said that it is a factual, emotional book that will help officers’ wives navigate their lives noting that “It underscores women as agents of stability for the nation as the nation battled insurgency and other security challenges.
“It’s a guide and reference for military wives, and need for better support for military widows” noting that “insights from the book will help readers appreciate the challenges of of the military family”.
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Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State commended Mrs. Irabor’s book, saying that it will promote national development even as he commended the military for containing insecurity in Imo state saying “The military has brought peace to our state”.
In her speech, Mrs. Irabor said the military wife was an unsung heroine.
She noted that for many years, military wives were never celebrated in spite of being the ones operating behind the scene to support the career of their spouses in securing the nation.