Hajia Aishat Buhari, the wife of the 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, however 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.”
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, however 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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