[The Presidential Blog] Did you miss Aisha Buhari’s #TBT photo?

The wife of President Muhammadu Buhari took to Twitter late Thursday evening to post her Throwback Thursday picture like millions of internet users around the world.

However, unlike those other people, her own #TBT photo had nothing to do with cute photos of her childhood or teenage years, nor did it have anything to do with sepia-toned photographs of her wedding day to the President – all photos we wish she had actually posted.

[Did you miss this: Aisha Buhari and the Snapchat flower crown filter]

But like the politician/essential part of the narrative that the present administration is trying to spin in these hard times caused by the President’s illness, Aisha Buhari instead chose to remind us that “Osinbajo is Buhari” through a throw back campaign poster.

Of course, everyone remembers that a vote for Buhari at the polls in 2015 was also a vote for the younger, more academically inclined and better tested (he was once an Attorney-General of Lagos State) Professor Yemi Osinbajo. And even though at the time, the Professor was almost nothing more than the Christian South-Westerner on a very necessary Muslim/Northern X Christian/Southern  Presidential ticket (#WelcomeToTheZonalPoliticsOfNigeria), choosing a man of Professor Osinbajo’s pedigree to run with General Muhammadu Buhari was as smart a choice as any country could have made.

[Don’t miss this: Might the Osinbajos be just as cool as the Obamas?]

Now that the President cannot perform the functions of his office at a time when the continued win of his political party depends dearly on it, having the more attentive, diplomatic, appealing (his family has been compared to the Obamas, what else do you want?) and definitely whip-smart Yemi Osinbajo at the helm of affairs – whethercoordinatorinator of national affairs or as an Acting President – is a point that needs to be driven home.

That’ the TBT you missed. The wife of the President trying to remind you in the colloquial language of the internet, that the successes of Osinbajo are also the successes of her husband – even in his absence.

Point well taken.

For what it’s worth, let’s share our own #FlashBackFriday:

Maybe this will eventually end in a Joe Biden-and-Obama-are BFFs type of conclusion. Won’t that make for a great story?

 

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