Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience
Jonathan, on Sunday said her current visit to Port Harcourt, Rivers
State capital, is not meant to unseat Governor Rotimi Amaechi as being
insinuated in a section of the media.
Mrs. Jonathan, an indigene of the state,
had been in the news for allegedly backing the anti-Amaechi members of
the state House of Assembly, with a view to removing the factional
chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, an allegation she has denied.
In a statement by her spokesman, Ayo
Osinlu, the President’s wife said none of the purposes of her latest
visit to the state had to do with politics.
She said apart from the fact that the
entire country was her constituency, she equally had the liberty to
visit any part of the state.
The statement read, “We have observed
reports in some of today’s (Sunday’s) national dailies which are an
obvious attempt by certain interests to link the current visit of the
First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State
capital, with a desire to unseat the governor of the state.
“For the purpose of protecting the
innocent public from misinformation by these interests, it becomes
important for us to state the facts of the First Lady’s presence in Port
Harcourt as follows:
“Her Excellence was the Special Guest of
Honour at the official commissioning of the Yitzhak Rabin International
School, Port Harcourt on Friday, June 15, during which she also
received an award from the Yitzhak Rabin Centre for African Development
for her successful advocacy for women empowerment and the achievement of
enduring peace in Nigeria and around the continent.
“She also featured eminently as Mother
of the Day at the wedding of her brother and member of the Rivers State
Legislature, Evans Bipi, on Saturday.
“The First Lady will finally receive well wishers at the burial of her grandfather on Sunday, the 23rd.
“It is difficult to see how any of the activities above is associated with the political circumstances of anyone.
“Perhaps we need to remind those who are
crying wolf and are being harassed by their own ghost, that Rivers is
the home state of the First Lady, which makes her a principal
stakeholder with all the rights and privileges to visit the state as she
considers needful.
“This is besides the fact that the
entire country is her constituency as mother of the nation, a situation
that comes with the liberty to visit any part thereof at will.”
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no need saying it, she cant unseat Gov. Amaechi. thanks
ReplyDeletelet her visit borno state.
ReplyDeleteNigeria. so na Patience dey unseat Govs now. na God go save una for this family business wey una don turn the country into. Madam go manage the home front na by force say first lady must dey run up and down to be conspicious? abi una no fit learn from Abubakar wife? any women wey no first get wetin dem dey do na so e dey b wen their husband become sumtin.
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