has said she is not ready to feed her husband,
President Goodluck Jonathan, in prison.
The President’s wife spoke in Ado Ekiti, on
Monday, during the rally of the women’s wing of
the Peoples Democratic Party.
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!”
She openly admitted that the Office of the First
Lady, which she occupies, is illegal.
She, however, said there was nothing wrong in a
woman supporting her husband in office.
She said, “They said there is no Office of the First
Lady. Already, we know that there is no Office of
the First Lady but there is wife of the President.
“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.”
While she was talking, women – both old and
young – fought to have their share of the leftover
of rice distributed by Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele
Fayose, during the last Christmas festival,
packaged in small bags.
The women were still struggling over the rice
packaged in small bags when attention was
diverted to another struggle for buckets presented
by Senator Gbemi Saraki in commemoration of
the October 16 inauguration of Fayose.
In the struggle, which almost resulted in a
stampede, many of the women got injured.
Shoes, headgears, wigs and bags littered the floor
while a woman was heard complaining to a friend
that she lost her bangle.
Security men had a hectic time controlling the
surging women who engaged in a brawl.
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 madate 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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