Patience Jonathan Blasts Wole Soyinka “You’re An Embarrassment To Nigeria”

This is a serious matter,

The First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan has replied Professor Wole Soyinka who called her a domestic appendage over Rivers State House of Assembly crisis on Friday.

According to her spokesperson, Ayo Osinlu, the wife of Nigeria’s first unpopular president Jonathan, Dame Patience said Wole Soyinka betrayed the moral duty that  expected him, as a respected member of the society, to carefully consider all shades of issues that informed his opinions on any matter.

The statement further states;

“Unfortunately, Soyinka betrayed moral duty in his recent diatribe against Mrs. Patience Jonathan.“Of course, this would not be the first  time he would reach out against the First Lady, usually from  self-righteously indignant lecterns.“In this particular instance, his  verdict was that Mrs. Jonathan was ‘stoking the crisis currently rocking  her home state of Rivers…’, and thereupon asked Mr. President to  caution his wife.

“The good, old Prof. reminds one of the  truth that indeed, most of the giants on the street are men of like  passions like everyone else. Worse still, most of them are actually  standing on clay feet and would fail the test of a gentle push.“Otherwise, who would have believed that  the social, civil, constitutional and sundry rights crusader Prof.  would maintain a safe distance from the heart of an activity that is a  potential threat to the peace, security and safety of the people of a  state, then collect exaggerated stories and jaundiced perspectives from  familiar propagandists and character assassins, and promptly summon the  media to a “state of the nation” address.

“It’s an embarrassment to his throng of  admirers and followers, that a sage of Prof. Soyinka’s status, who used  to be a gauge of public morality in this nation, would lend himself to a  propaganda of high drive, to save a governor who elected to launch into  a river without applicable survival skills.”Mrs. Jonathan argued that the  calculation was to attack the President and pull to pieces anyone  associated with him, as a strategy for attracting public sympathy to the  “clear underdog.”She said Soyinka was only contributing to the project when he claimed that she was Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s problem.

[Culled from PUNCH]