The wife of the President, Patience
Jonathan, says the All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate,
Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) will send her to jail if he is
elected.
In a manner typical of a prayer session,
Patience, at the Peoples Democratic Party rally in Ibadan, Oyo State, on
Wednesday, invoked the ‘Holy ghost fire’ to consume PDP’s opponents.
Patience also called on the crowd to vote for the PDP at the polls.
Patience, who had earlier entertained the
crowd of supporters by dancing to household music tracks such as
‘Kukere’ and ‘Personally,’ said the Goodluck Jonathan-led government was
a lover of women and youths in the country and should, therefore, be
encouraged to continue.
She said, “I want to warn you not to
listen to the All Progressives Congress. The APC does not have materials
to match what the PDP has on (the) ground. Their candidate was there in
governance initially. What did he do? They only sent your fathers to
prison.
“They are planning to even send me to
prison. Holy Ghost fire! Holy Ghost fire! Holy Ghost fire! They have
nothing to offer. They only say ‘I will’, ‘I will’.
“A train is moving and it has now got to
Oyo State. When we talk about train, some of you may have not seen a
train before now. The last time a train moved in this country was when I
was small and in primary school.
“When my children were small, they asked
me what a train was. I had to take them to London and we entered a train
from London to Paris. But the PDP government has brought this back to
Nigeria. If you want to see train working today, you don’t need to
travel again.”
The Minister of the Federal Capital
Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, who spoke earlier, said Jonathan deserved to
be re-elected because he gave women 35 per cent representation in his
cabinet.
She said, “I enjoin the women and youths
of Oyo State to vote for our party on Saturday. I have seen a campaign
advert by the APC in the newspapers saying ‘God give us men’. But our
prayer in the PDP is different. We pray that God gives us men and women.
“Jonathan is the first President in
Nigeria to give women 35 per cent. Going by the National Conference
report, the President has said that if women have 35 per cent, youths
will also have 30 per cent.
“I was looking at the list of the
universities set up by this administration, and I saw that one of them
was set up even in the hometown of his opponent – Gen. Buhari. I think
that if Buhari could not set up a university in his own state, Jonathan
has done it and, therefore, deserves to continue.”
Culled From PUNCH
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