Patience Jonathan
Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame
Patience Jonathan, has said the Peoples
Democratic Party women’s campaign rally was in
Ogun State on Tuesday to celebrate the party’s
victory and not to hold a campaign rally.
She said this in Abeokuta on Monday at the PDP
secretariat, when she met the women’s wing of the
party in the state.
Dame Jonathan, who was represented by the wife
of the vice-president, Mrs Aminat Namadi Sambo,
said it was time for the PDP to take over the state
from the ruling All Progressives Congress, while his
husband and the vice-president, should be re-
elected to continue their transformation agenda.
She said, “What we are seeing today, to me, is only
a celebration. We are not here to campaign; the
party has started. We are just here to thank our
women.
“The rousing welcome and the reception you have
accorded us are indications that PDP is coming
back to Ogun State. If there is a place that we need
change, it is Ogun State, but we need
transformation in Abuja. So, my dear women, I urge
you to come out en masse on March 28 and vote
for Mr. President.
“We are all aware of the good works they have
started and I think it is advisable that we allow them
to continue what they have started.”
The wife of the president, who noted that her
husband’s administration had been a gender-
friendly one, expressed the hope that the president
would continue to support Nigerian women to attain
not only the 35 per cent affirmative action but also
to take it up to 50 per cent.
For PDP to return to power in Ogun State, she said
it would not happen through a magic wand,
appealing to collect their Permanent Voter Cards,
and turn out en masse on March 28 and April 11
and vote for the party.
She said, “PDP will come back to Ogun State. But
we need to do more. We need to go and get our
PVC. Anybody that hasn’t collected his or her card
should please do so.
“That is your power, that is your right and bring
back the mandate that we have been expecting
from you as women.”
She said President Jonathan had brought
transformation to various sectors – roads, power,
airports, railway and education among others.
She said, “I am quite sure you have tasted and you
have been a witness to the good works that he has
done in this great state of yours.
“I’m quite sure you are aware of the new power
plant that has been constructed. I am quite sure you
are aware of the transformation that has been going
on in our transport system, the roads are now
motorable. Work is ongoing in Lagos-Benin Road.
So, we want you to continue to enjoy the goodies.
“Our railways are now working, our schools have
been impacted with great infrastructure and our
universities have been having a new uplift. I want to
assure you that they will continue to support
education, they will continue to transform the health
sector, they will continue to transform the
educational sector.
“Our airports are now having facelift everywhere
you go. I’m quite sure, with your mandate, they will
continue to do more.”
The PDP governorship candidate for the state,
Gboyega Isiaka, and the former governor of the
state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, also canvassed votes
for the President’s re-election.
Daniel noted that while Jonathan “is energetic and
youthful, Buhari (Mohammadu Buhari) is old and
weak.”
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