The first lady does not need Aisha Buhari's advice - PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign organisation has spurned the assurance given the First Lady, Patience Jonathan by Hadjia Aisha Buhari, wife of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. Mrs. Buhari had offered a word of assurance to Mrs. Jonathan that neither she nor her husband, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan will go to jail if Buhari wins the presidential election.


 Mrs. Buhari’s advice followed the First Lady’s repeated statements expressing fears that Buhari might jail the first couple, apparently for corruption if the APC candidate becomes president.

But in a statement yesterday, the PDP campaign organisation asked Mrs. Buhari to keep her assurances to herself, saying Mrs. Jonathan did not need the assurance.

The Director of Media and Publicity of the campaign organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode said, “the entire PDP presidential campaign did not appreciate her counsel because the First Lady has not committed any offence.

“We take note of what Hajia Aisha Buhari has said. But we don’t appreciate her counsel and neither do we need any advice from her because the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has not done anything wrong.”

In a separate statement also yesterday, Fani-Kayode said the APC should state whether or not its presidential candidate, could guarantee that not one dollar of Al-Qeda, ISIS or ISIL (terrorist groups) money had been used to support his presidential campaign.

Fani-Kayode, in a swift response to the threat of court action by the spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Malam Garba Shehu, on the question, said it was a pity that supposed educated persons could not make a distinction between a question and an assertion.

“If they are waiting for a retraction to our questions, they will wait forever. Hell will freeze over
before we retract any question that we have put. We will not retract any question rather we will continue to put more uncomfortable questions to them until they provide answers by saying yes or no.”