All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign
Organisation, APCPCO, said yesterday that the wife of the President, Dame
Patience Jonathan was “an incredibly crude woman” but thanked Nigerians for
putting up with her attitude.
In a statement in Abuja, the organisation said Mrs
Jonathan’s recent description of the presidential candidate of APC, General
Muhammadu Buhari as “brain-dead” was both insulting and demeaning of her status
as the First Lady.
APCPCO consequently urged President Goodluck Jonathan to
call his wife to order in view of Abuja Peace Accord.
The APCPCO further recalled another of Mrs Jonathan’s
statement in Calabar, Cross River State where she urged PDP supporters to
“stone” all those canvassing for change, saying she was invoking violence.
The statement added 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.
Urges Jonathan to stop desecrating religious institutions
Meanwhile, the APCPCO has accused President Goodluck
Jonathan of turning worship centres into political platforms.
Mallam Garba Shehu in a statement said it was an “absurdity
that defies the norms of government practices, and that the President is
deliberately doing so “in the belief that the manipulation of religious
sentiments would cover up the multitudes of his epic failures.”
According to Shehu, using worship centres as platforms for
making major official statements could create precedents that the country could
not handle in the future.
He said if past Presidents did not use the mosques or
churches to make official statements of public importance, it was wrong for
President Jonathan to start something that is already sending the wrong
message.
The statement said with the exploitation of religion for
political gains, President Jonathan and his PDP-led government have lost any
basis to accuse its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, of being
a religious “bigot” or “fanatic.”
Similarly, the APC presidential campaign also frowned at the
reports of money allegedly shared to religious leaders by President Jonathan to
get their support, describing it as scandalous.
It said it was incredibly embarrassed as to why a government
would allegedly seek to bribe religious leaders to cover up its misdeeds and
win re-election, despite its incompetence and non-performance.
It regretted that bribing religious leaders would not only
bring them into disrepute but also make nonsense of President Jonathan’s claim
to fight corruption
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