Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's wife has cautioned him that she may not back him at the following decision unless he shakes up his administration.
Aisha Buhari proposed his administration had been seized by just a "couple individuals", who were behind presidential arrangements.
She said the president did not know the vast majority of the authorities he had selected.
Mr Buhari, who is on a visit to Germany, has reacted by saying his wife had a place in his kitchen.
Remaining close by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a news meeting, the president ignored his wife's allegations.
"I don't know which party my wife belongs to, but she belongs to my kitchen and my living room and the other room," he said.
The remarks earned him a glare from Chancellor Merkel.
Mr Buhari said that having run for president three times and having succeeded the fourth, he could "claim superior knowledge over her".
Buhari was elected last year with a promise to handle corruption and nepotism in government.
But the interview with Naziru Mikailu from BBC Hausa, Mrs Aisha Buhari said: "The president does not know 45 out of 50 of the people he appointed and I don't know them either, despite being his wife of 27 years."
She also said people who did not share the vision of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) were now appointed to top posts because of the influence a "few people" wield.
"Some people are sitting down in their homes folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position," she said.
His wife's choice to open up to the world about her worries will stun numerous individuals, however it demonstrates the level of discontent with the president's initiative, says the BBC's Naziru Mikailu in the capital, Abuja.
Aisha Buhari crusaded enthusiastically for her significant other in a year ago's decision in Nigeria, sorting out town lobby gatherings with ladies' gatherings and youth associations the nation over.
Nonetheless, she stayed under the radar toward the begin of the organization and was scarcely observed or listened. She was limited to her work on the strengthening of ladies and helping casualties of the Boko Haram struggle in the north-east of the nation where she is from. This is one reason why this condemning meeting has gotten the consideration of numerous Nigerians.
It is a noteworthy blow for Mr Buhari, who has a notoriety for being an intense, straightforward president.
Her remarks additionally reinforce allegations that his legislature has been captured by a little gathering of people.
Commentators say countless have been selected in light of their association with those individuals in one way or the other.
Mrs Buhari was incited to stand up with an end goal to end those practices so that gathering followers who added to his race triumph could profit.
Her pundits say she is standing up simply because she neglected to persuade the president to select her own particular individuals.
Be that as it may, as the nearest individual to the president, she more likely than not depleted all roads before reprimanding him in the media.
The remarks could likewise stamp a defining moment for an administration that has obviously attempted to manage financial subsidence and is confronting developing uneasiness inside the decision party.
The Nigerian economy, battered by low worldwide oil costs and a cash depreciation, formally entered retreat in August without precedent for 10 years.
Oil deals represent 70% of government salary.
The president famously remarked at his inauguration that he "belongs to nobody and belongs to everybody".
Asked to name those who had hijacked the government, she refused, saying: "You will know them if you watch television."
On whether the president was in charge, she said: "That is left for the people to decide."
Mrs Buhari, who at 45, is 23 years her husband's junior, said he had not told her whether he would contest the 2019 election.
"He is yet to tell me but I have decided as his wife, that if things continue like this up to 2019, I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote like I did before. I will never do it again."
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