I Hate Violence - Patience Jonathan

The wife of the president, Mrs Patience Jonathan has made her mind known about all the drama that has entangled her with the All Progressives Congress (APC)

Dame Patience Jonathan

Punch reports that Mrs. Patience Jonathan, yesterday told the presidential campaign organisation of the All Progressives Congress that “she is a woman of peace that can never be identified with electoral violence.” She said also made it known that there was no way a woman like her who occupies the exalted office of the President of the African First Ladies Mission would be promoting violence in disguise.

Speaking through Ayo Adewuyi, her media aide, the first lady reacted to the decision of the APC to report her to the International Criminal Court for allegedly asking supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party to stone anyone canvassing for change, the APC slogan, during a campaign rally in Calabar, Cross River State.

Adewuyi said, “The only thing we can say from here is that Dame Patience Jonathan is a woman of peace that can never in any way be identified with violence before, during and after elections. “You do not expect somebody who is the President of African First Ladies to be promoting violence.”
When asked whether the President’s wife would be ready to answer any inquiry from the ICC on the matter, Adewuyi simply said, “They are just notifying. The case is not yet in ICC. They are entitled to their opinions and actions. We are not going to be dragged into any argument with them.”

Meanwhile, Patience Jonathan has been in the news lately. She recently asked Nigerian women to reject the All Progressives Congress (APC) in next month’s general elections, saying the opposition party will take the country back to analog days.

The APC presidential campaign organisation filed a formal complaint against her for calling on Peoples’ Democratic Party supporters to “stone” anyone who come to the state asking for change.