THE All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to call his wife, Dame Patience, to order.
The APC presidential campaign, however, hailed Nigerians for putting up with her, saying it was insulting for Mrs. Jonathan to describe the presidential candidate of APC, General Muhammadu Buhari as “brain-dead” and also demeaning of her status as the first lady.
APCPCO’s Director of Media and Publicity Mallam Garba Shehu said it was discourteous and inexcusable for a wife of any president with a modicum of decency to make such a false pronouncement about the health status of another man on account of politics.
He noted 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.
According to him, it was below the standard of a wife of a president to call for violent attacks against members of the opposition, stressing that while a good number of Nigerians were not taken by surprise by the first lady’s pronouncements, it was important for her husband to put her in bridles in the spirit of the Abuja Peace Accord.
The APC campaign observed that much as indecent the outbursts of Mrs. Jonathan was “in attempting to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians about her husband’s incompetence to lead the country”, it was “typical of the PDP’s modus operandi to confuse Nigerians with mundane issues instead of the issues of corruption; her husband’s appalling lack of capacity to secure life and property of citizens and a glaring incompetence in dealing with the challenges facing the economy”.
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