My goodness! These politicians don't play at all. The spokesperson of the PDP Presidential campaign organization, Femi
Fani-Kayode released a statement just this afternoon alleging that APC is planning to run a documentary
about the private lives of President Jonathan, his wife and the Petroleum
Minister, Dieziani Allison Madueke.
He said that APC can say
all they want about Pres. Jonathan in the documentary but one thing
they cannot say about him is that he engages in gross and perverse
intimate affairs with little boys unlike one of the APC leaders who is
sponsoring the planned documentary. Ouch! He also alleged that while Buhari was in the UK recently to solicit for support for
his presidential bid, he agreed to repeal the anti-gay law
signed by President Jonathan in January 2014. Full text of what he said after the cut...
Gentlemen of the media,
Let
me start by expressing the gratitude of our Campaign Organisation to
all of you for the support you have been showing us since we started
this journey.
We
invited you here today to intimate the Nigerian people, through your
esteemed media organisations, about a despicable and wicked agenda that
is being orchestrated by the opposition to scandalise, undermine and
bring into disrepute our candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan (GCFR),
his wife, the First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan, our
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison Maduekwe and other
key government functionaries and members of his administration.
The
special operations and intelligence wing of my Directorate has been
reliably informed that the opposition is planning to air a documentary
about the private lives of President Jonathan, the First Lady and the
Minister of Petroleum Resources. The documentary is riddled with
falsehood and it is vulgar, smutty, cheap, shameful and salacious. This
initiative is being spearheaded by the entire leadership of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) and is being funded and organised by two
serving governors and one former governor who controls his state through
his hand-picked stooge.
Our
response to this initiative is one of utter repugnance. That the
opposition has degenerated to such a point that in response to
legitimate questions that were raised about the record in public office
of their Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari and their de
facto leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in two major and widely viewed
documentaries, the only recourse they have, rather than answering the
questions put in those documentaries, is to try to humiliate, shame and
disgrace our presidential candidate by making the most baseless and
scandalous accusations about his private life. The truth is that this
shameful course of action will not work and we shall not be distracted.
Neither will we lose any sleep over it.
We
are, however, by this press conference, sending a clear signal to the
three APC leaders that are funding and spearheading this initiative that
it will not in any way serve the interest of their party or the
interest of their Presidential candidate if they insist on treading that
path or toeing that deplorable line. In the event of them insisting on
treading this dangerous and dishonorable course, we reserve the right
to respond fully and use all legitimate means to expose the inherent
evil that these three individuals habitually and continuously manifest
in both their private lives and whilst in public office.
The
truth is that they can say what they like about President Goodluck
Jonathan, his family members and those close to him but one thing they
cannot say is that, unlike one of the three individuals that is behind
this disgraceful initiative, President Jonathan does not show an
unhealthy interest in the affairs of little boys and he does not indulge
in gross and perverse intimate acts with them in his spare time in an
obscene, indecent, shameful and completely unacceptable manner.
They
can say whatever they like about our candidate but, unlike one of the
three individuals that are behind this reprehensible initiative, it is
not President Goodluck Jonathan that ended up eloping with and
eventually marrying the house girl of his former leader.
They
can say whatever they like about President Jonathan but it is not our
President who drove his own father into political oblivion, broke the
poor man’s heart and sent him to an early grave in pain, tears, defeat
and shame. Presidential Jonathan did not do any of these things. It is
those that have insisted on engaging in this shameful and repugnant
initiative that have done these things. They know who they are and, for
now, we need not mention their names. At the appropriate time, we shall
mention names and expose every aspect of the sordid life styles of these
individuals and at that time the Nigerian people will judge for
themselves.
The
second issue we want to touch on today is the shameful proposition that
was made to General Muhammadu Buhari by the representatives of a number
of western governments when he was in the United Kingdom for a
prolonged stay. He had appealed to them for support and to get their
endorsement. He had talks with the representatives of at least four
western countries. The leaders of those countries made an offer to
General Muhammadu Buhari and we are reliably informed that he has put
the offer under consideration.
The
proposition and offer was that if he was prepared to support
legislation in Nigeria to allow same sex marriage and if he was prepared
to repeal the anti-gay laws in Nigeria they will, in return, endorse,
support and fund him, initially covertly and eventually publicly, at the
right time.
Instead
of outrightly rejecting these offers and spurning this proposition, to
our utter shock and consternation, General Buhari apparently refused to
rule it out and has put the matter under consideration. Instead of him
to say NO he assured them that he would consider these two things. We
believe that this is a matter that ought to be brought to the attention
of the Nigerian people as a matter of urgency. The APC are so desperate
to ensuring that General Buhari becomes the President of this country
that they are actually prepared to consider the scrapping of all
anti-gay or anti-homosexual legislations and at the same time, endorsing
and supporting fresh legislation that would allow same sex marriage in
our country. They are considering this despite the fact that the
overwhelming majority of the Nigerian people find same sex marriage and,
indeed, homosexuality repugnant and unacceptable.
We
are using this occasion to challenge General Buhari to come clean and
to tell the Nigerian people whether this is true and whether, in the
unlikely event of his being elected President, he is seriously
considering scrapping the anti-homosexual laws in our country and
pushing through new legislation which would allow same sex marriage.
The
third issue is as follows. We read, with amusement, the threat by the
Buhari’s Campaign Organisation through their spokesperson, Mr Garba
Shehu, that it is their intention to drag the First Lady, Dame Patience
Jonathan, before the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC), for
allegedly indulging in what they described as ''hate speech'' at a
recent rally in Rivers State.
It
is pertinent to note that, first of all, if they were a little better
educated and had a better understanding of international law and how the
ICC works, they would appreciate the fact that no individual is ever
taken to the ICC based on what he or she has said unless and until
people act on those words and massacre others. It is only if that
speech is followed by violence and mayhem or if it incites people to
commit violence, which results in death, mass murder and crimes against
humanity, that the person who indulged in such hate speech becomes an
eligible candidate for the ICC.
Dame
Patience Jonathan is a woman of peace. She did not threaten anyone with
violence; she did not incite anyone to commit violence or to kill
others and her words have not resulted in death, mass murder or any
crimes against humanity. We therefore completely reject the baseless
charge and assertion that she has called for the killing or slaughter of
anyone at any point in time.
Their
threat to take the First Lady to the ICC is not only absurd but it is
also nothing but the empty and boastful ranting of a perfidious,
desperate, decaying and dying political party and such threat will
amount to nothing. The truth is that if anybody is a candidate for the
ICC, it is certainly not Dame Patience Jonathan, but rather General
Muhammadu Buhari himself.
We
say this because, firstly, he needs to answer questions about his role
in the July 29, 1966 coup and the mass murder of about 300 Igbo army
officers, including a serving Head of State, that took place that
night. Secondly, there are questions to be answered about his role
during the pogrom and massacre in northern Nigeria in 1966 in which no
less than 100,000 innocent Igbo civilians, including women and children,
were slaughtered in cold blood by mobs that were covertly armed and
supported by a small handful of junior army officers. Thirdl,y Buhari's
role during the Asaba massacre, in which hundreds of Igbo civilians were
murdered for no just cause, still needs to be clarified. It is left to
Buhari to clarify these matters and tell us his role in all these
events but if these grave allegations are true, they make him a prime
candidate for the ICC.
Another
episode in which Buhari has questions to answer is his role in the mass
murder of hundreds of people in the northern part of this country,
including a number of young youth corpers who were in their prime, by
Buhari’s supporters in 2011. This happened after he lost the
presidential elections and after he encouraged them to go on the streets
to commit violence. That deviant behaviour alone makes him a veritable
candidate for the ICC.
We
are, indeed, grateful that a Dutch law firm has, indeed, filed papers
to the ICC asking for General Buhari to be forcefully brought to the
court to answer questions about those killings in northern Nigeria by
his supporters in 2011. The court action is appropriate and vital in
light of the remarks credited to General Buhari about a year ago in
which, inter alia, he said that if he were to lose the 2015 Presidential
election, the ''baboon and the dog would both be soaked in
blood''. What this means is that he intends to soak the entire nation
in blood in the event that he loses the election on March 28. He
has refused to withdraw that statement and as a precursor to the
violence he will again unleash on Nigeria after the Presidential
election, his supporters have been stoning the convoy of President
Jonathan in some parts of the north each time he goes there to campaign.
It
is very clear that General Buhari is a violent man who has the
disposition to incite people to commit mass murder and acts of
violence. We wish to take this opportunity to make it abundantly clear
that if anybody is killed after the 2015 presidential election after
Buhari has been defeated, we will hold him accountable and fully
responsible and we will ensure that he faces the full wrath of the
law. Justice will be brought to him swiftly and expeditiously. We
advise General Buhari and his Campaign Organisation to stop threatening
the First Lady with the ICC and instead spend their times looking
inwards and delivering themselves from their obvious blood-lust and
irrational and bestial desire to inflict violence against those who do
not agree with them and who they perceive as their enemies.
Pause- We
hereby crave your indulgence to play a clip of the brutal and blood
chilling remarks made by General Buhari which ultimately triggered the
orgies of violence recorded in some northern parts of the country in
2011.
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On
a final note, we would like to refer you to a set of pictures published
on the front page of the Leadership Newspaper edition of last
Tuesday. As you can see, President Jonathan is the lead figure in both
pictures, which were mischievously placed on top of one another.
In
the first Picture, President Jonathan is surrounded by some prominent
Yoruba traditional rulers led by His Imperial Majesty, the Ooni of Ife,
Oba Okunade Sijuade Olubuse II. You can see that the staffs of office
of the numerous traditional rulers were pointed towards the President as
he sat down and whilst they prayed for him.
It
has been brought to our attention that the spokesperson of the APC
actually sponsored that advertorial and the contents of it reflect the
sheer depravity of that individual's deep, dark, disrespectful and
sinister mind. Under the picture, they wrote; ''You cannot serve God and mammon''. Right
below the caption is another picture in which President Jonathan was
praying both in Israel and at the Redeemed Camp in Nigeria. The intent
and implication of the pictures and the words below each of them are
clear. The motive for displaying the pictures in this manner and those
words is to bring not only President Jonathan but also our revered
Traditional Rulers in the south west into disrepute and opprobrium.
Indeed,
it beats our imagination how anybody in his right senses could equate a
legitimate prayer for our President in the court of the Ooni of Ife by a
large number of Yoruba traditional rulers, with the worship of
mammon! It is insulting, disrespectful and totally unacceptable. We
seize this opportunity to issue a stern warning to Lai Mohammed and his
party to stop insulting the Traditional Rulers of the south-western part
of our country. It was not too long ago that the de facto leader of
the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, described the southwest Traditional Rulers
in the most uncharitable terms when he said only three of them could be
taken seriously.
We
completely reject these insults on our Royal Fathers and we hereby call
on the APC leaders to bury their heads in shame and apologise to our
Traditional Rulers. We also demand an apology from Lai Muhammed for
encouraging the posting of these pictures in this disgraceful manner,
organising the whole thing and sponsoring the advert. If they refuse to
apologise or refuse to withdraw the advert, then we take it that the
APC as a party has become the enemy of every single Traditional Ruler in
Yorubaland and the consequence of that will be far reaching and
devastating for the fortunes of their party in the coming elections.
We thank you for listening.
