BY Guest Writer
I write to respond to the article written by one Aisha Abdullahi from Malaysia titled: ‘Re: Aisha Buhari: The designer first lady who fooled my people’, published in the Cable of the 29th October, 2016.
She was reacting to an earlier article by Umar Sa’ad Hassan on the same topic published a week earlier. Ordinarily, I would not have reacted to her write up but was constrained to do so by her insinuation in paragraph 18 where she asserted as follows:
‘Where conscience prevails, Amina Mohammed, Minister of Environment, should have also declined her appointment if I am not betrayed by the records on how she was instrumental to the probing of Mr. Buhari on Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) during the Obasanjo regime’.
The above is totally incorrect and a mere fabrication! If Aisha has bothered to check, she will have found that Amina Mohammed was one of the co-founders of AfriProjects Consortium that were engaged by the PTF to provide project Management services to the Fund throughout its existence before President Obasanjo disbanded the PTF. The firm was probed alongside the PTF and cleared of all allegations. In fact, the firm was paid part of its outstanding fees by the Obasanjo administration. The question is; why will Amina instigate a probe of the PTF and by extension her own firm? It does not make sense and I therefore wish to draw the attention of Aisha and likes to ensure that they cross check their facts before rushing to write on others or better still, write on people where they are sure that their facts are unassailable.
Dr Dala wrote from Abuja.
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