Do not vote for Buhari, because he jailed Ekwueme, Ojukwu, Nwobodo, Mbakwe, Dame Jonathan appeals to Ndigbo in Onitsha
The First Lady, Dame
Patience Jonathan has called on Ndigbo not to vote for the Presidential
candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari
who
deliberately imprisoned prominent Igbo sons and daughters on trumped up charges
when they were actually innocent.
Highlight of the
occasion was the presentation of a chieftaincy title of "Ugochukwu
Tubelu" on Mrs. Jonathan, by the Otu Odu Onitsha Women Association and a souvenir
by the Niger Diocesan Anglican Women Organization led by Mrs. Nwokolo, its
president and wife of Anglican Bishop on the Niger, Rt. Rev. Dr. Owen Nwokolo.
Addressing the Peoples'
Democratic Party (PDP) rally yesterday at the All Saints Cathedral Field,
Onitsha, Anambra State, said it was painful for Buhari to have imprisoned some
reputable men like Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, former Governors Sam Mbakwe
of Old Imo State and Jim Nwobodo of Old Anambra State and their wives, as well
as former Vice President Alex Ekwueme in a selective trumped up charges,
thereby breaching their fundamental rights and sad reminder that Ndigbo were
defeated during the Nigerian civil war.
The First Lady said,
"I am not here for propaganda like the APC. I am here to tell you that we
can't vote for someone who left his fellow Hausa men and women and imprisoned
Ojukwu, Mbakwe and his wife, Nwobodo and his wife among other Igbo
personalities even when they were not corrupt as alleged".
"President Goodluck
Jonathan wiped out our tears and made us to forget the pains of the Nigerian
civil war. Jonathan is our Messiah and that was why Ojukwu blessed him shortly
before he died", Patience recalled.
President Jonathan, she
noted has gone beyond the stipulated 15 percent women's rights as agreed in the
Beinjing, China women convention and insisted that he deserved a second term in
office, adding that Jonathan equally rehabilitated our hospitals, built health
centers and equipped them to the extent that mother/child maternal deaths were
reduced to a barest minimum.
She also predicted that
APC would soon fizzle out after losing the elections, adding that for the
Rivers State Governor to defect from APC to PDP was an indication that APC
would die a natural death after the elections.
Also the PDP National
Woman Leader, Kema Chikwe; the first Female Governor in Nigeria and former
Governor of Anambra State, Dame Virgy Etiaba; the PDP National Publicity
Secretary, Olisa Metuh and Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka had expressed
confidence that Ndigbo would vote for Jonathan massively since according to
them, there is no vacancy in Aso Rock.
They therefore urged
Ndigbo to vote for the PDP at both the presidential, senatorial, House of
Representatives, Governorship and House of Assembly elections for the sake of
continuity, starting from Jonathan as president, Stella Oduah as senator for
Anambra North, Uche Ekwunife for Anambra Central and Andy Uba for Anambra
South.
Prominent Igbo at the
rally include Senator Ben Obi, presidential adviser on inter-party affairs; Senator
Andy Uba, Princess Stella Oduah, former Minister of Aviation and PDP senatorial
candidate for Anambra North Zone; Hon. Cyril Egwuatu, member representing
Onitsha North/South Constituency in the House of Representatives, among others.
Photo: Dame Jonathan and Obi's wife Margaret and VP wife
Do not vote for Buhari, because he jailed Ekwueme, Ojukwu, Nwobodo, Mbakwe, Dame Jonathan appeals to Ndigbo in Onitsha
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