A mother of nine, who named her son Buhari, has expressed confidence in President
Muhammadu Buhari.
In
2011, Khadija Auwalu
from Jos - plateau state went into labour while queuing
to vote for then-candidate Muhammadu Buhari and then returned home to deliver a
son. Few minutes later, she returned to cast her vote for Buhari.
It was gathered that young Buhari, almost
clocking six years now, is now popularly referred to as ‘General’ around the
community.
Speaking to Daily Trust in her room where she
lives atop a rocky hill around Yan Zuma area of Anguwan Rogo, Jos North in
Plateau state, Auwalu says things have been difficult for her family.
She said: “But we knew from the beginning that we would have to exercise patience
for things to turn around in this country, that in order to effect the change,
we must make sacrifices and it is a sacrifice we are still willing to make. It
takes a day or less to destroy something but it can take several years to build
from scratch. Nigeria was in a very bad shape when President Buhari took over
and I believe it will take time to fix the country.”
While defending the President’s policies on
banning certain food items, Auwalu explained that for the first time in
Nigeria, “We are consuming what we
produce and farmers who were regarded as the poorest of our communities are
beginning to earn a better living.”
She described the typical Nigerian as ‘very
forgetful’, stressing: “It wasn’t too
long ago that we were all suffering from the bomb explosions and many were
dying, during those moments, we had food but who was eating? You cannot eat if
you do not have peace of mind. But now that we have peace of mind, some of us
are talking trash. I, for one, still believe in him and I am very optimistic
that food prices will crash, and soon.”
However, the 35-year-old mother is worried
that her eldest son who is 19, will be kicked out of school for failure to pay
the N13,000 school fees.
“His father says
he is looking for money for feeding, not school fees. That has been bothering
me greatly,” she said.
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