Retired Female Servants In Borno Tackle Patience Jonathan Over Buhari

Borno State, Patience Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari, Forum for Retired Female Civil Servants

Retired female civil servants in Borno State have taken a swipe at the nation’s first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, over her broadsides on former head of state, Muhammadu Buhari, and her comments regarding the violence in northern Nigeria.

The women, who spoke under the Forum for Retired Female Civil Servants in Borno State, particularly expressed outrage over Mrs. Jonathan’s repeated attacks on Mr. Buhari, who is the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress and major threat to President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election.

The women specifically took note of Mrs. Jonathan’s description of Mr. Buhari, 72, as a “brain-dead” old man.

According to the women, the first lady has no reason taunting the former army general as she could be older, without make-up.

“Patience Jonathan is saying that Buhari is an old man and recently they stoned the convoy of Buhari’s wife. If Buhari is old, I believe that Patient Jonathan is not any younger than Buhari to say the fact because as a woman, we know how women hide their age behind make ups to look younger, therefore, we are saying enough is enough”, said Aishatu Ngulde, who spoke on behalf of the Forum.

The women said they decided to speak out because they had become uncomfortable with the politics of personality being played by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

“We are here today because we have been pushed to the walls and anyone that is pushed to the walls has to react.

“They say we gave birth to children and throw them on the streets to become Boko Haram”, the women said.

The group also accused the wife of the president of not showing concern to the plight of Borno women, thousands of whom have become widows or have lost their children due to the ongoing Boko Haram conflict.

“The First Lady has never come to Borno state but we have seen her supporting even other countries; never has she come to see for herself what the Borno people are actually passing through. She only sits in Abuja and passes judgement on what she knows nothing about”.