The Director, Media and Information Technology, Buhari Campaign Organisation, Dr. Chidia Maduekwe, has said that the wife of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will not join the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, to play political thuggery, because she is not a tout
Maduekwe, in an interview with Saturday PUNCH in Abuja on Thursday, said, “You should know it is beneath the person of our respected General’s wife to join issues with Dame Patience Jonathan.
“Mrs. Jonathan has clearly shown that she lacks the discipline and composure required of the occupant of the office of the First Lady. It is neither the General’s style nor is his Madam’s style to join Mrs. Jonathan to play the role of political tout.
“Mrs. Buhari is too refined and well groomed to descend to the level of insulting someone else’s husband in the name of politics.
“There is this adage which says you don’t run after a mad person who took your cloth while you were taking your bath because those who see you running after the mad person may not distinguish between the mad person and you.” The campaign organisation was reacting to a report that Mrs. Jonathan said Buhari might be brain dead because of his age at a campaign rally in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, on Tuesday.
Patience had said that old people might not reason very well because of their ageing mind.
She said, “Vote for my husband, Jonathan. Do not vote for Buhari. He is an old man. People, when they become old, may not reason well and their brain may even be dead.”
Reacting to Mrs. Jonathan’s comments on Buhari, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, also described her as “an embarrassment to Nigerians and Nigeria.”
Dabiri-Erewa, who is a cognate member of the APC in the House, said, Mrs. Jonathan was not only “crude” in her actions, but her utterances had taken away the “poise” associated with the office of the First Lady.
She said of all Nigeria’s First Ladies, Mrs. Jonathan remained the “worst.”
Dabiri-Erewa said, “Mrs. Jonathan is an embarrassment to the whole country. The only people shouting her praise or listening to her are the sycophants; outside them, nobody else does.
“She is crude and unrefined. When you travel out of the country, Nigerians keep asking you how we came this bad.”
Another member of the Buhari campaign, who asked not to be named, told Saturday PUNCH, “Mrs. Buhari does not have a structure different from that of General Buhari.
“The campaign has already responded copiously to the reckless statement by Mrs. Jonathan. Besides, the general’s wife accompanied her husband on the trip to London.”
In a statement signed by the APC’s campaign’s Director of Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday, the party said the President’s wife was insultive.
The APC campaign urged President Jonathan to caution his wife.
SOURCE: PUNCHNG.COM