Abduction: First Ladys parley distracting, counter-productive, says APC

The All Progressives Congress has decried what it described as the melodramatic intervention of First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, in the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State about three weeks ago.

The party said her conduct had been distracting, counter-productive and calibrated to scapegoat others with the sole intention of exculpating her husband rather than finding the girls. Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this in a statement in Lagos on Tuesday.

According to the party, there is nothing wrong in the First Lady, as a woman and the mother of the nation, playing a role in resolving the unfortunate abduction of the girls.

The party noted that that role must be within the realms of social activism, not in policy making or conduct of state affairs.

It warned that the melodrama, highlighted by the shedding of made-for-television crocodile tears, could not and would not bring the girls back safely to their parents. What will bring them back is a purposeful and sustained effort by the Federal Government, which has hitherto been tentative and lethargic. Therefore, enough of the distracting, absurd and overbearing show that the First Lady has put up in the past few days, APC said. The spokesman for the First Lady, Mr. Ayo Adewuyi, said his principals intervention was simply a demonstration of her passion for Nigerian children.

Adewuyi said, They are entitled to their own opinion. Every right thinking Nigerian would know that the general intervention was out of her passion for the children of Nigeria.

Anybody can say whatever he or she wants to say. But those who have the love of the country at heart would definitely know that it is her passion to see that these children are rescued.

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Abduction: First Ladys parley distracting, counter-productive, says APC

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