Retired female civil servants in Borno State have
launched a scathing attack at the first lady, Patience
Jonathan, over her broadsides on former military ruler,
Muhammadu Buhari, and her comments regarding the
violence in northern Nigeria.
The women, under the Forum for Retired Female Civil
Servants in Borno State, particularly expressed outrage
over Mrs. Jonathan’s repeated attacks on Mr. Buhari,
who is the presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, President Goodluck Jonathan’s
major challenger.
The women pointed at Mrs. Jonathan’s description of
Mr. Buhari, 72, as a “brain-dead” old man.
The women said Mrs. Jonathan has no reason
taunting the former general as she could be older, if
she wears no make-up.
“Patience Jonathan is saying that Buhari is an old
man and recently they stoned the convoy of Buhari’s
wife. If Buhari is old, I believe that Patient Jonathan
is not any younger than Buhari to say the fact
because as a woman, we know how women hide their
age behind make ups to look younger, therefore, we
are saying enough is enough,” said Aishatu Ngulde,
who spoke on behalf of the Forum.
The women said they decided to speak out because
they had become irritated by the personality attacks
by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
“We are here today because we have been pushed to
the walls and anyone that is pushed to the walls has
to react.
“They say we gave birth to children and throw them
on the streets to become Boko Haram,” the women
said.
The group also accused the wife of the president of
not showing concern to the plight of Borno women,
thousands of whom have become widows or have lost
their children due to the ongoing Boko Haram conflict.
”The First Lady has never come to Borno state but we
have seen her supporting even other countries; never
has she come to see for herself what the Borno people
are actually passing through. She only sits in Abuja
and passes judgement on what she knows nothing
about.”
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