Patience Jonathan incredibly crude, says APC

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation on Wednesday described the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan, as “an incredibly crude woman,” but thanked Nigerians for putting up with her.

The campaign was reacting to news that Mrs. Jonathan described general Buhari as “brain dead” at a campaign rally in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, a day earlier.

This was contained in a statement signed by the campaign’s Director of Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja.

According to the campaign, it is not only insulting for Mrs. Jonathan to describe the Presidential Candidate of APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, as “brain-dead,” it is also demeaning of her status as the First Lady.

The APC campaign urged President Jonathan to call his wife to order.

Shehu said, it was “discourteous and inexcusable” for a wife of any president with a modicum of decency to make such a false and infantile pronouncement about the health status of another man on account of politics.

The APCPCO recalled that in recent time, Mrs. Jonathan had made statements invoking violence like she did in Calabar over the weekend when she urged PDP supporters to “stone” all those canvassing for change.

Shehu stressed that it was below the standard of a wife of a president to stoop so low to call for violent attacks against members of the opposition.

The statement noted that while a good number of Nigerians are not taken by surprise by Mrs. Jonathan’s recent incredulous pronouncements, it is important for her husband to put her in bridles in the spirit of the Abuja Peace Accord.

It partly read: “The APCPCO similarly observed that as much as indecent and disgraceful the outbursts of Mrs. Jonathan was, it was an attempting to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians about her husband’s incompetence to lead the country.

“It is typical of the PDP’s modus operandi to confuse Nigerians with mundane issues instead of the issues of corruption, for which her husband has achieved an unbeaten record; his appalling lack of capacity to secure life and property of citizens and a glaring incompetence in dealing with the challenges facing the country.”

SOURCE:THE PUNCH