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Some members of the All Progressives Congress have lambasted the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, for reportedly mocking the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (Retd), and questioning his mental health.

The first lady had told supporters at the campaign rally in Calabar, Cross River, to vote for my husband, Jonathan. Do not vote for Buhari. He is an old man. People, when they become old, may not reason well and their brain may even be dead.

Online media had reported that she also told the group to stone the APC supporters if they told them to vote the Buhari.

Reacting to the development, a former presidential candidate in the 2011 election and publisher of Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu, said it was unfortunate that those in President Jonathans camp still had not stopped inciting Nigerians to violence. He wondered why the PDP had continued to make remarks that were capable of creating more tension in the polity.

Momodu added, via Twitter, that a key supporter of the President admitted that some PDP members were doing more damage to his re-election bid than good.

I just spoke to a very influential supporter of Jonathan who expressed sadness that the hawks were doing so much damage to his campaign, he tweeted.

The leaders and presidential candidates of the PDP and APC had earlier signed a peace accord as part of their efforts to ensure peaceful elections in the country.

Also, shortly after President Jonathan and Buhari had signed the pact, the governorship candidates of their respective political parties in various states had to follow their examples.

But the recent statement credited to the First Lady may have ignited the same ethnic tensions that the peace accord was expected to tackle in the first place. Some commentators have already started viewing her comment as anti-north.

An ex-Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and Kaduna State governorship candidate, Nasir el-Rufai, was one of those who interpreted the statement as being targeted at northerners.

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