Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari who is currently on a visit to the United States of America said on Saturday that the visit was necessary to hold discussions with aid organizations on how to help the women and children facing starvation in the north eastern part of Nigeria.

Aisha Buhari spoke in an interview with the Hausa service of the Voice of America, VOA.

Buhari said she met with officials of the United States Institute for peace on Friday and assured them that any aid rendered to displaced persons would go to those who needed them, unlike before.

She noted that the United Nations International Children Fund (UNICEF) had been providing aid packages containing nut-related supplements, which, she said, are produced in large quantities by Nigerian farmers.

The president’s wife said she told the officials that there was need to set up a plant in Nigeria that could produce the package.

“Our children in the various camps are in dire situation and the government alone cannot do it, we have to get help,” she said.

“It often takes between 6-8 weeks for these things to be shipped to Nigeria, before they arrive, many children would have died, so I suggested to them to set up the manufacturing plant in the country if they really want to help is,” she said.

Mrs. Buhari said she started paying close attention to the issue after recent revelations that women and children were dying of hunger in some IDP camps in Borno State.

Speaking on why she sued Ayo Fayose, Aisha Buhari said the Governor attacked her for no reason, while also raising false allegations against her.

She said Fayose had been insulting her and the president since during the 2015 campaign.

“At the time, he was not the only one insulting us, but people felt that it was just campaign,” Mrs. Buhari said.

“After the election, which we won and they lost, everyone else moved on except him and he extended his insults to me.

“I did not run for president. I am a married woman and I have never called his name. I never knew him. But as governor and chief executive, he kept insulting and raising false allegations against me, I have to respond and I decided to go to court.

“He made allegations over what he said I did here in the US, even though I have never met the people he mentioned.”

Governor Fayose had accused the president’s wife of alleged involvement in the Halliburton scandal in U.S and dared her to travel to the country.

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