Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan while speaking at Ado Ekiti, on Monday, during
the rally of the women’s wing of the Peoples Democratic Party, has said she
is not ready to feed her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan, in prison.
Making a reference to the All Progressives Congress, she
asked, “What did they forget in Aso rock? If you vote PDP and Jonathan, it
would be better for you. If you vote APC, you will go to prison. How can you
jail somebody for 300 years? I’m not ready to carry food to my husband inside
prison oh!”
Speaking further she said,
“As (the) wife of the President, if you are good, people
will love you. You will have a Non-Governmental Organisation through which you
will touch people’s lives. That is why I brought Women for Change Initiative.”
Mrs. Jonathan described APC as a poison, saying, “If you
drink APC, you will die.”
Accusing the party of having to change name several times,
she said, “Since my father was born, they have been around changing from one
name to another. Very soon they would answer Ebola. The name can’t change you;
it is only performance that can change you. If you like change it 100 times.
“Nigerian women shine your eyes, don’t go for analogue, go
for digital. PDP is digital, APC is analogue.
Fayose at the event took a swipe at former President
Olusegun Obasanjo, saying his tacit support for the APC presidential candidate,
Maj. Gen. Muhamadu Buhari (retd.), would get him nowhere.
“After Jonathan, the North can have their own eight years.
Whether they like it or not, whether that our baba, you know him, whether he
tore his card or not, whether he ate the card or not, Buhari is going nowhere,”
he declared.
“Goodluck is our own. He is coming back. I am carrying the
mandate of a people who believe in me. If they do elections here 20 times, I
will win,” he boasted.
Mrs. Jonathan said it was time for the women to pay back her
husband for appointing several women into positions of authority.
“This is the time to say thank you so that he will do more.
Those people when they were there, they said we didn’t have brains. Jonathan
came and lifted us from where we were lying helplessly.”
She urged the women to collect their Permanent Voter Cards
and vote massively for the president.
“PDP is not a party that tells lies. Whatever we promise to
do, we do. We are not a propagandist party. Ekiti women, your mother is here
and I will not tell you lies, but the truth.
“Nigerian women shine your eyes o! Vote with what you have
seen, who you already know and who has performed. If anyone is telling you
change, they are deceiving you.
“These were people that when they were there before Goodluck
Jonathan, they did not count you women as anything. But today, PDP has wiped
away our tears. Jonathan has wiped off our tears. He has fulfilled his promise
of giving women 35 per cent participation. He gave 16 seats to women out of 42
slots in his cabinet. He is a performer.”
Earlier, over 100 wives of Ekiti monarchs welcomed the
President’s wife to the palace of the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, where seven of them
prayed for her while she knelt down in their midst.
Speaking through the wife of the Ewi, Mrs. Abosede Adejugbe,
the wives of the monarchs appealed to the President’s wife to extend the
Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme to Ekiti State fully.
She assured her of total support in the coming general
election.
The wife of the Ewi also called on six other ‘oloris’ in
addition to herself to pray for Mrs. Jonathan, describing seven as a powerful
number.
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