presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), General
Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday told
Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of
President Goodluck Jonathan, not to
be scared that her husband would go
to jail if Buhari is eventually elected
as President of Nigeria on 28th
March.
Aishat’s comment was a reply to a
statement last week by Dame Patience
while campaigning for her husband in
Ekiti State.
Mrs. Jonathan had asked the people
of the state not to vote for Buhari
because he would send President
Jonathan and the state governor, Mr.
Ayodele Fayose, to jail.
She said she was not prepared to be
taking food to her husband in prison
and that if the people of the state
do not want same for their governor,
they should avoid voting for Jonathan.
Aishat, who spoke at a mega rally in
Edo State, also asked Patience
Jonathan to be in tune with the
reality that the country and its people
seriously need change.
She also lampooned the First Lady for
becoming so desperate to the extent
of painting Buhari as a religious bigot
just to deceive the people and attempt
to draw their attention away from
the problems the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) has caused in the
country.
She said only those who have looted
the country and have become scared
would campaign the way Patience
Jonathan has been going with the
campaign for support for her
husband’s re-election.
According to Aishat Buhari, each zone
of the country has its peculiar
problems.
“For me in this zone, girl-child
trafficking should be considered one
of our problems, though I know there
is unemployment.
“Unemployment is the major factor
that contributes to brain drain and
also the girl-child trafficking.
“General Muhammadu Buhari is a
leader who led Nigeria some decades
ago and he is coming back now to
sanitise the system.
“For those that are campaigning,
saying that he is coming to jail
Nigerians, I don’t know what their
fear is. But they shouldn’t be afraid,
because we are all yearning for
change.
“The insecurity in the country, the
very poor healthcare system, lack of
education and other basic necessities
that people are lacking I believe
Nigerians need somebody like General
Muhammadu Buhari now. Already,
they have painted him black, using
religion.
I’m happy today that Nigerians realise
that they use religion as a cover to
loot Nigeria.
“Any politician who talks to you
about religion is a liar, he only wants
to loot the treasury and the little
resources you ought to enjoy. So say
no politics merging it with religion to
deceive the people.
“I’m here today to let Edo women
know that when my husband is
elected into office as President, all
these will be history.
“The insecurity, the girl-child
trafficking, suffering of the widows in
the South East will come to an end.
There must be a cultural design that
can accommodate the widow.
“A design that would make the girl-
child comfortable wherever she is in
this country. She doesn’t have to
leave her country to go and prostitute
elsewhere, it’s not her portion.
“Her portion is to have a highly
standard and moral society for her to
live in. Get married, have children,
train them and also mould them to
become the future leaders.
“We are here today to also let you
know that the collection of your
PVCs is important and don’t ever sell
it.
“It’s like selling your future. If you sell
it for N5,000, you won’t see N5,000
again until after four years which will
be bad. Get your PVC, vote for APC,
vote for freedom, vote for a new
Nigeria with good security, good
education, good healthcare, good
roads and all basic necessities,” she
told Edo women.
While addressing the people of the
State, Governor Adams Oshiomhole
noted that the PDP had failed in the
last six years to meet the
expectations of Nigerians, as the party
could not provide even basic
infrastructure to make life better.
Rather than work, he said, the PDP
had engaged in exploiting even the
poor by claiming to subsidise kerosene
even when the product is almost not
affordable.
Oshiomhole said: “In sixteen years,
PDP didi not provide light, we provide
the transformers to the communities
but the PDP Federal Government
cannot power the lights. They collect
fixed charges from the people when
there is no fixed light.
“They say ther’s power reforms,
howver instead of reform, they
deform. They advertised to employ
people into the Nigeria Immigration
Service and use private company to
charged the applicant N1,000 each.
“The private company collected over
N800 million from poor youths and
took them to the stadium to conduct
an interview, at the end people died.
Instead of the Minister in charge to
be reprimanded, he was given national
honours.
“You need to understand the issues.
Our call for Change and for people
to vote for the APC and vote out
the PDP is because the PDP has
completely failed and deceived the
people for 16 years. So they must go
home.
“The people must vote for APC to
return Nigeria from darkness to light,
from unemployment to employment
and from insecurity to security.”
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