YOUR PROMISES ARE EMPTY, APC TELLS FIRST LADY

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State, today stated that the speech made by wife of the president, Patience Jonathan is empty.

Specifically, the opposition party argued that the first lady made promises to the people without stating what it termed cogent achievements of President Jonathan in the state.

The president's wife spoke at a rally of the women’s wing of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ado-Ekiti.

The Ekiti APC in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, added that her speech lacked the grace of a first lady.

According to the statement, "Throughout her speech, she manifested an image of a village masquerade providing a momentary comic relief to a poverty-ravaged community not in a hurry for socio-economic salvation.

"You would have thought that the First Lady would list her husband’s achievements in Ekiti State and then give the people some hope that her husband would build upon those achievements, but she engaged in a duet with her host and soul mate, Governor Ayo Fayose, in an empty campaign comedy to a thoroughly dazed enlightened Ekiti people.

"It was a perfect duet by two comedians that one does not need any counsel‎ that Nigeria must be rescued from the captivity of the costumed ‘people of power’ without responsibility.

"She was consistent‎ly painting Buhari a man that would herd Nigerians into jail without committing any crime whereas Buhari only insisted that criminals during his coming administration would go to jail.

"She said she was not ready to prepare food for Fayose in jail‎. Inadvertently, Mrs Jonathan was telling Nigerians ‎that Fayose is a candidate for the prison if Buhari wins."

While challenging the first lady's claims that women were appointed into government positions in Ekiti State by Fayose, the APC maintained that this is a clear case of falsehood, which it said had become synonymous with Jonathan’s administration.

The statement added that, "Fayose has a four-man cabinet running his government. Apart from the Secretary to the State Government, where are the other women Fayose has appointed?

Mrs. Jonathan only came to Ekiti to entertain in a political theatre full of deceits and false props constructed by Fayose for maximum personal profits."

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