When Mr. President finally exit Aso-Rock May 29th 2011 he would not realize that one other reason for his waterloo was the excesses of his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan. Madam First Lady came to limelight with the inauguration of her husband as president but she introduced herself to Nigerians through all the wrong reasons. And as Mr. President tries to justify her gaffes in the public, she is never in short supply of them. “Some Husbands Do Have Them” would be an appropriate name for the drama Dame Patience stars in before Nigerians’ viewing to the shame of Mr. President.
President Jonathan should be wholly blamed for his wife’s faults because Nigerians would have been spared all this if he had not legalized an illegal office – the office of the First Lady. While this office is unconstitutional, it is ceremonial and is honored in most democratic nations around the world. However the military government of Ibrahim Babangida gave prominence to it and this military practice was not discontinued during the Obasanjo administration, as he exalted one of his wives, Stella, as First Lady – the end of which was her unfortunate death while undergoing aesthetic (stomach) surgery. This unconstitutional office enjoys a handsome supply of monies from the national treasury, with staffs paid by the federal government, not minding the fact that Mr. President has never pointed to the provision made for it in our yearly national budget. This office would always have a pet project designed to benefit women and children, at least to justify the huge sums given to it. The office of the First Lady is illegal and is one of the greatest source of waste to tax-payers money.
Yinka Odumakin, spokes-person for Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, recently reminded Nigerians of some alleged corrupt practices traced to Patience Jonathan at the inception of her husband tenure. Mr. Presidents aides were quick to discredit these allegation, claiming the EFCC had given her a clean bill of health. Despite this, it is not difficult to believe these allegations as corruption charges against any Nigerian incumbent has never been proven. Also the President’s aides and the EFCC are simply doing the job they are paid for when they paint their principals as saints. It is only after Jonathan have left office would we discover the depth of the corrupt practices this nation has put up with for the past 12 years PDP has been in government. The more reason their exit is so urgent.
Dame Patience brought a new dimension to “First Ladyism” in Nigeria when, rather than accompany her husband on his campaign trip, she ran a parallel campaign with her husband’s. In the disguise of running a PDP women’s rally nationwide, Dame campaigned “eloquently” for her husband’s re-election – in the process introducing new words to the English dictionary like umblerrah (Umbrella) and also identifying with a group of widows as “we widows”. All of these, without regard to how much these rallies would cost the nation. Dame Jonathan is forever in the public view, always shown giving speeches on NTA. Despite her poor command of English, she forever saying something on TV. Patience Jonathan is bad luck for Goodluck Jonathan.

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