has spurned the assurance given the First Lady, Patience Jonathan by
Hadjia Aisha Buhari, wife of the presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
Mrs. Buhari had offered a word of assurance to Mrs. Jonathan that
neither she nor her husband, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan will go to jail if
Buhari wins the presidential election.
Mrs. Buhari's advice followed the First Lady's repeated statements
expressing fears that Buhari might jail the first couple, apparently
for corruption if the APC candidate becomes president.
But in a statement yesterday, the PDP campaign organisation asked Mrs.
Buhari to keep her assurances to herself, saying Mrs. Jonathan did not
need the assurance.
The Director of Media and Publicity of the campaign organisation,
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode said, "the entire PDP presidential campaign did
not appreciate her counsel because the First Lady has not committed
any offence.
"We take note of what Hajia Aisha Buhari has said. But we don't
appreciate her counsel and neither do we need any advice from her
because the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has not done anything
wrong."
In a separate statement also yesterday, Fani-Kayode said the APC
should state whether or not its presidential candidate, could
guarantee that not one dollar of Al-Qeda, ISIS or ISIL (terrorist
groups) money had been used to support his presidential campaign.
Fani-Kayode, in a swift response to the threat of court action by the
spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Malam
Garba Shehu, on the question, said it was a pity that supposed
educated persons could not make a distinction between a question and
an assertion.
"If they are waiting for a retraction to our questions, they will wait
forever. Hell will freeze over before we retract any question that we
have put. We will not retract any question rather we will continue to
put more uncomfortable questions to them until they provide answers by
saying yes or no."
--TheNation
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