Patience Jonathan Warned Against Coming To Bayelsa For Campaign By Angry Youths

Angry youths in Bayelsa State, under the
auspices of the Bayelsa Youth Vanguard, have
threatened to disrupt the Peoples Democratic
Party presidential rally if President Goodluck
Jonathan's wife, Patience, comes with her
husband for the campaign. The rally is slated
for February 5 at the state capital, Yenagoa.
The organization therefore warned Patience
not to accompany her husband to the
presidential campaign.
It accused her of causing crisis in the state and
warned her to desist from that or face the
consequences.
The warning, the group said, was sequel to
what it described as attempts by the
President's wife to destabilize the state and
fuel needless crisis and political tension in the
state.
The spokesperson for the BYV, Precious Ebi
Johnson, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday,
said that Patience would only be allowed to
come to the state "unless she retraces her
steps or otherwise we will mobilize against
the President's rally."
The statement read in part,
"We are constrained to issue this
statement to bar the President's wife
from accompanying President Goodluck
Jonathan to Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State
capital, for the presidential rally on
February 5.Our action is well informed
by the various steps and activities of
the President's wife in recent times
which portend clear danger for the
good health of our dear state.
We note with regret the various
attempts by the President's wife to
create crisis in the state through
subterfuge or using surrogates.
As things are, we want to make it very
clear to her that she has to change this
attitude or we go against her coming to
Yenagoa with the President for the
presidential campaign. Indeed, we may
be forced to mobilize against the entire
rally.
For the avoidance of doubt, we want to
state clearly that we love our dear
president. President Goodluck
Jonathan is our own even when we
have to add that we have not really
benefited from his administration as
expected.
We dare say the President should not
come to Bayelsa with his wife if she
continues to fuel crisis and destabilize
the state for no just reason except for
selfish reasons. This is not Rivers State
and we won't allow it to happen."
He said that the youths of Bayelsa would not
allow Patience to step her foot into Bayelsa
soil unless she retraced her steps.
Johnson said it would be wrong to assume that
they were sponsored by anyone to issue the
warning.
The statement added,
"We want to further state that we are not
sponsored by anybody but certainly cannot
just stand by and allow our peaceful state
to be dragged to the mud, as she did in
Rivers State.
We are no fools. The President's wife cannot
come to our state to dictate to us who to
support and vote for.
We are matured enough to know what is
good for us. Nobody should come and bribe
our poor mothers and women with expired
bags of rice and some money in the name
of politics to mislead our people.