by ALEXANDER SMITH
Whether it's Melania, Bill or Michelle, the other halves of America's bruising presidential campaign have regularly been called upon to defend their embattled partners.
Nigeria's president is probably wishing his wife had kept quiet.
In a candid interview with the BBC, Aisha Buhari revealed Friday that she may not back her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, if he stands for reelection in 2019.
The president won a historic victory in 2015 after campaigning on a platform to stamp out Nigeria's endemic corruption problem. But on Friday the first lady suggested that her husband's administration had been hijacked and that he was not in control of appointing his own officials.
"The president does not know 45 out of 50, for example, of the people he appointed," she told the BBC. "I don't know them either, despite being his wife of 27 years." . . .
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