Buhari advocates for abolition of the Office of First Lady

In the US, where the office of the first spouse is prominent, there is no constitutional provision for that office. We have in Nigeria chosen to emulate both constitutional and conventional practices of the US. GMB objection to that office is not out of concerns for the convention but of his religious disposition. His wives are in purdah and while he was HOS, his wives were largely absent in accordance with his religious belief that women were not to seen nor heard. I expect him to come out and say this rationale for his objection and I will accept it but not use veneer of constitutionality to vent his religious beliefs. For disclosure, I dislike the way and manner the current and previous first ladies have abused this conventional practice. They have take the US convention and expended it into being a major government department. It ought not have budgetary and fiscal import. It should not run a shadow government. Abolishing the office is throwing the baby and bathwater away. I suggest reforming the office. It holds symbolic value and ought to promote causes the government is unable to do. It ought to be a charitable hulb to promote selfless service and value to our national growth of women. It's an idea that is yet to see light of day but it ought to. Implementing policies only or mainly through religious lens is equally unhelpful, women in the 21st century cannot be in purdah we need all hands on dock to steer our national ship. Nigeria is a modern country and the pathway is not fundamental Christianity nor Islam. GMB needs to get this or otherwise he will set sail for the 17th century as other political Islamic countries have done. We aspire not to Afghanistan but to Malaysia, not to Pakistan but to France. Nigeria, in constitutional terms is secular. GEJ is equally playing into the religious trap with his overboard religiosity.