As pressure
continues to mount for BBC Hausa not to air the controversial interview Aisha
Buhari granted it some days ago, the station has said only Mrs Buhari can stop
them from airing the said interview.
Mrs Buhari had
in the interview stated that many of the people who are working for her husband
now were not there when he started the journey and that most of those who had
put in efforts for him to emerge president have been abandoned.
DailyTrust
reports that a source within the Abuja Bureau of the BBC revealed that a letter
from the Presidency has been sent to it asking for the interview not to be
aired.
The source
also stated that the Speaker of the Hause of Representative, Yakubu Dogara, has
also tried to informally persuade the BBC from airing the interview.
The source
told Daily Trust that the network wouldn't backdown on its promise to air the
interview as an independent media organisation. The source stressed that the
only condition that can make the service not air the interview is for the
interviewee, Aisha Buhari, to decide against it. Even in that case her voice
recanting what she had said in the interview would be aired. Therefore, a part
of the interview will be aired in the service's morning broadcast tomorrow. It
will be aired in full on its programme, 'Gane Mini Hanya', on Saturday.
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