As the quagmire in Rivers state lingers, Nigeria’s first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has described the state governor, Rotimi Amaechi as “a governor who elected to launch into a river without applicable survival skills.”
She made this remark in a statement by
her spokesman, Ayo Osinlu, in response to comments attributed to Nobel
Laureate, Wole Soyinka, who blamed her for the protracted political
crisis rocking Rivers State, particularly the violence in the state
House of Assembly on Tuesday.
Dame Jonathan is definitely on to
something here. The Rivers state “river” has become a bloody one, so
bloody in fact that some lawmakers who obviously lacked
“applicable survival skills” have been bloodied.
Mrs Jonathan in her statement wondered
why Mr Soyinka “would lend himself to a propaganda of high drive, to
save a governor who elected to launch into a river without applicable
survival skills.”
Mr Soyinka had earlier told Mrs Jonathan to “Be a lady before being a First Lady.”
“In fact you can’t be a First Lady
without first being a lady. Is she the first 1st Lady we’ve had? The
vulgarity has become intolerable. We’ve now reached the bottom of
obscenity…,” he had said.
The statement by the first lady pointed
out that Mr. Soyinka’s strategy to be Mr Amaechi’s “lifeguard”, is to
attract public sympathy to the “clear underdog” by attacking President
Jonathan, and by so doing drag down anyone associated with him, saying
the writer was only fuelling the crisis with his claim that she was
Governor Amaechi’s problem in Rivers State.
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