Nigeria: APC - Patience Jonathan Is Crude

5 March 2015

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has thanked Nigerians for putting up with "an incredibly crude woman," Patience Jonathan, as Nigeria's first lady. Speaking on Tuesday during the PDP women presidential campaign rally in Kogi State, Mrs. Jonathan had described Muhammadu Buhari, APC's presidential candidate, as unfit to be the country's president. "Wetin him dey find again? Him dey drag with him pikin mate," she said in pidgin English. "Old man wey no get brain, him brain don die pata pata."

But responding in a statement issued yesterday in Abuja and obtained by an online news medium, TheCable, APCPCO said it was not only insulting for the president's wife to describe Buhari as "brain-dead," but it was also demeaning of her status as the first lady.

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