Patience Jonathan and the PDP’s army of flamethrowers are a gift to APC. By reducing the 2015 presidential campaign to a contest of who can hurl the coarsest insults they do more damage to their principal than to their intended targets.
A few days ago caught up in the euphoria of campaigning, the First Lady declared General Buhari ‘brain-dead’. In another outing earlier she directed party’s supporters to stone anyone crying ‘change’ – the opposition slogan. She then spiced things up by declaring that in her part of the world men don’t produce more children than they can cater for – a jibe at the army of almajiris who have become her husband’s pet project.
Before she got the rush of blood to the head, the PDP presidential campaign dove into the gutter by calling opposition leading lights unprintable names. One such raging press statements described their body odour and bad breath. These clearly are the issues that PDP believes would make voter prefer Jonathan to Buhari: that the opposition candidate’s associates smell badly!
I used to think there’s method to madness but not any longer. The more I observe the ongoing meltdown in the PDP presidential campaign, the more I am mystified at what has become of the party’s famed election-winning machinery. How is it possible that a party which triumphed at four general elections since 1999 could be putting such a chaotic show?
How do these insults win votes for Jonathan and the PDP? When Mrs. Jonathan denigrates northerners for producing children they cannot cater for, is she suggesting that the problem doesn’t exist down south? When she calls a very popular northern political leader ‘brain-dead’, how does that help her husband across the region?
With their gross name-calling, Mrs. Jonathan and the others have inserted themselves front and centre of the campaign. They have become the focus of attention. It’s just three weeks to the elections and precious time that should be spent selling her husband is being used to advertise unpleasant individuals the public would contend with if Jonathan returns for four more years.
How can people who claim to be religious be spewing such hatred ? What sections of the Bible or Quran encourage such vile abuse and lying in the name of politics?
Those who are so proud of their ability to abuse others should know that what they consider an endowment isn’t so ennobling. It defines them more as base persons than those they seek to tear down. It reflects badly on the president when his spouse is indecorously abusing the much older Buhari who also happens to be a former Head of State. People only need to compare her conduct to Aisha Buhari’s and draw their conclusions.
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There is no comparison, doing that will demean a woman that has bewn carrying so noble and culture.
Surely Mrs Aishat Buhari is well schooled and well bred.