Punch: Buhari planning to send me to prison –Patience

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.”
Other dignitaries at the event were the PDP governorship
candidate in the state, Senator Teslim Folarin, his wife,
Angela; wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs. Kemi Mimiko, and
the party’s senatorial candidates in Oyo State.