All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter has accused the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan of descending into what it called the abyss of opprobrious indecency with the words and body language that have been coming from her recently, asking her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan to call her to order.
In a statement today signed by the party’s state publicity secretary, Senibo Chris Finebone, APC described the First Lady’s recent campaign address at rallies in Niger Delta region as “extremely shameful,” adding: “ordinarily, the APC would have remained amused at the futile comic relief her court-jestering was providing the serious political space and environment. But that cannot be the case when she has, in the past two weeks, descended into the abyss of opprobrious indecency with her words and body language.”
The APC said that it is worried now because, the First Lady has gone from personal insults and unprintable words on the APC Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari and now “foraging into areas where even angels fear to tread. By going beyond insulting General Buhari to taunting the section Buhari hails from as procreating uncontrollably, the APC wants to believe someone should caution Mrs. Patience Jonathan to be aware of the ensuing whirlwind that will result from the wind she is planting.
“The APC would like to inform Mrs. Jonathan that the Ivory Coast’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, has just been sentenced to 20 years in jail for her role in the violence that followed the 2010 elections in that country. This should be instructive to our First Lady that her utterances have far-reaching consequences, good or bad.
“And how she ends up in history remains her responsibility, meaning that she should hold herself responsible for whatever her verbal incontinence and indiscretion brings to her, now or in the future.”
“It is important to remind our dear First Lady that wars and conflicts have, sometimes, been caused by wrong people finding themselves in the right places as we seem to have now. But when the bell tolls, everyone will answer according his or her deeds but not before the damage is already done and lives lost.
“However, it is the hope of the APC that Mr. President will do what any good husband does: call the wife to order. This will avert the fast growing anger building up in our brothers and sisters from the North who perceive her recent demeaning utterances as a collective insult. A stitch in time, they say, saves nine!” [myad]
