The Director, Media and Information Technology, Buhari Campaign Organisation, Dr. Chidia Maduekwe, has said that the wife of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will not join the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, to play political thuggery, because she is not a tout
Maduekwe, in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, said, “You should know it is beneath the person of our respected General’s wife to join issues with Dame Patience Jonathan.
“Mrs. Jonathan has clearly shown that she lacks the discipline and composure required of the occupant of the office of the First Lady. It is neither the General’s style nor is his Madam’s style to join Mrs. Jonathan to play the role of political tout.
“Mrs. Buhari is too refined and well groomed to descend to the level of insulting someone else’s husband in the name of politics.
“There is this adage which says you don’t run after a mad person who took your cloth while you were taking your bath because those who see you running after the mad person may not distinguish between the mad person and you.” The campaign organisation was reacting to a report that Mrs. Jonathan said Buhari might be brain dead because of his age at a campaign rally in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, on Tuesday.
Patience had said that old people might not reason very well because of their ageing mind.
She said, “Vote for my husband, Jonathan. Do not vote for Buhari. He is an old man. People, when they become old, may not reason well and their brain may even be dead.”
Reacting to Mrs. Jonathan’s comments on Buhari, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, also described her as “an embarrassment to Nigerians and Nigeria.”
Dabiri-Erewa, who is a cognate member of the APC in the House, said, Mrs. Jonathan was not only “crude” in her actions, but her utterances had taken away the “poise” associated with the office of the First Lady.
She said of all Nigeria’s First Ladies, Mrs. Jonathan remained the “worst.”
Dabiri-Erewa said, “Mrs. Jonathan is an embarrassment to the whole country. The only people shouting her praise or listening to her are the sycophants; outside them, nobody else does.
“She is crude and unrefined. When you travel out of the country, Nigerians keep asking you how we came this bad.”
Another member of the Buhari campaign, who asked not to be named, told Saturday PUNCH, “Mrs. Buhari does not have a structure different from that of General Buhari.
“The campaign has already responded copiously to the reckless statement by Mrs. Jonathan. Besides, the general’s wife accompanied her husband on the trip to London.”
In a statement signed by the APC’s campaign’s Director of Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday, the party said the President’s wife was insultive.
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Really that Mrs. Jonathan behaves like a motor park tout. Her utterances are so terrible. How did the President even decide to marry her?
ReplyDeleteWhy wont she insult another woman's husband? when she openly addressed her self as widow.
ReplyDeleteit's been long I knew that our president has no more life left in him, she has so wifed the president that there is no more manhood left in him
she quotes " my fellow widows" lol
" I like Ojukwu he die, but his manhood lives on" lol
The first unrefined and clueless Nigerian Firstlady.
The husband and wife have no manners, who'll caution the other?
ReplyDeleteEvery leader suppose to have a political trait. So for u to b a governor's wife or president 's wife, u should have a political trait in u. So I have not seen anything wrong in that
ReplyDeleteLike husband, like wife.
ReplyDeleteTalking about manners. Jonathan and his wifr is morr mannered than Most presidential candidates. Infact Jonathan is the most humble and quiet Nigerian president. Shine your eyes very well. Dont be deceived by an illiterate. We are than that.
ReplyDeletewho is now an illiterate? when you can not construct a simple and good sentence of English.check your sentence "we are than that"
DeleteWell what can I say. Upon all the training organised for first ladies she still does things like these. Haba first lady
ReplyDeleteMy brothers the woman is a bad
ReplyDeleteTree in nigeria.
I will simply put it as National Disgrace and very undemocratic. NHRC should question her, why attacking person and not issues based campaigns??? What a country, Mrs Jona ought to be selling Booli (roasted Plantain) at her village Market.
ReplyDeleteBlind people, only time will tell.
ReplyDeleteAll of u are fools lik ur foolish & good for nothing party APC
ReplyDeleteIf Mrs Jonathan is a tout, but not a vampire, a tout is better than blood sucking
ReplyDeleteMrs Buhari,remain calm,u will be the first lady to be proud of not this tout.She should be selling booooli as someone rigtly says.
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