My presence in Rivers is not to unseat Amaechi – Patience Jonathan

by Rachel Ogbu

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First lady, Patience Jonathan has found herself in the middle of the crises rocking the Nigeria Governors Forum.

On Sunday she explained that her visit to Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital was to attend the commissioning of the Yitzhak Rabin International School and not to unseat the state’s governor, Rotimi Amaechi as being suggested in a section of the media.

In a statement by her spokesman, Ayo Osinlu, the first lady said none of the purposes of her latest visit to the state had to do with politics. According to reports, she’s been said to support anti-Amaechi members of the state House of Assembly, with a view to remove the factional chairman of the NGF.

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The statement read, “We have observed reports in some of today’s (Sunday’s) national dailies which are an obvious attempt by certain interests to link the current visit of the First Lady, Dame Patience  Jonathan, to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, with a desire to unseat the governor of the state.

“For the purpose of protecting the innocent public from misinformation by these interests, it becomes important for us to state the facts of the First Lady’s presence in Port Harcourt as follows:

“Her Excellence was the Special Guest of Honour at the official commissioning of the Yitzhak Rabin International School, Port Harcourt on Friday,  June 15, during which she also received an award from the Yitzhak Rabin Centre for African Development for her successful advocacy for women empowerment and the achievement of enduring peace in Nigeria and around the continent.

“She also featured eminently as Mother of the Day at the wedding of her brother and member of the Rivers State Legislature, Evans Bipi, on Saturday.

“The First Lady will finally receive well wishers at the burial of her grandfather on Sunday, the 23rd.

“It is difficult to see how any of the activities above is associated with the political circumstances of anyone.

“Perhaps we need to remind those who are crying wolf and are being harassed by their own ghost, that Rivers is the home state of the First Lady, which makes her a principal stakeholder with all the rights and privileges to visit the state as she considers needful.

“This is besides the fact that the entire country is her constituency as mother of the nation, a situation that comes with the liberty to visit any part thereof at will.”

Comments (2)

  1. At will? Even when there should be heat on the polity due to one reason or the other? This is cruelty and arrogance of the first degree!

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