Why Patience Jonathan Will Host First Ladies Summit
The outgoing First Lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan has revealed that her intention for hosting the African First Ladies’ Peace Mission is not to deny the’First Lady-elect’ Aisha Buhari, the chance to become the president of the mission but rather to conduct elections to appoint a new president.
Patience Jonathan
Patience, who is the current president will host the mission on Friday in Nigeria after she summoned a meeting of the mission so as to appoint new executive members.
Patience denied reports that alleged the election would be held before May 29 instead of the stated July date so as to deny Aisha Buhari the chance to be president of the mission.
A media assistant to the First Lady, Ayo Adewuyi, in a statement on Tuesday explained why Patience would be hosting the mission.
Adewuyi disclosed that Patience was elected president of the mission in July 2012 for a two-year term as per the group’s regulations and her tenure was to end in 2014 and fresh elections held.
Adewuyi continued saying that the 2015 elections in Nigeria prevented the First Lady from hosting the mission as she was preoccupied with campaigning for her party – the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)- and her husband’s re-election.
Due to this set-back, Patience pleaded with her colleagues to wait until July 2015 which will be after the general elections in Nigeria.
Adewuyi however said that there was an agreement among members of the committee that Patience Jonathan will host a summit in May 2015 if her husband, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan failed in his re-election attempt. The summit will be used to hand over power to a new government.
The Punch quotes the statement saying, “Arising from the above, it is therefore clear that this is not a personal matter nor specifically a Nigeria sole affair but a continental platform governed by its own rules and protocols just as similar international organisations.
“It would therefore be out of place for anyone to insinuate that it is intended to shut out the incoming First Lady. This cannot be farther from the truth.
“We state therefore without any iota of equivocation that it is mischievous for anyone to scheme to cause disaffection between the outgoing and incoming First Ladies, Dame Patience Jonathan, and Hajia Aisha Buhari.
“Let us therefore come together in our tradition of hospitality to heartily welcome our guests, the African First Ladies, as they arrive Abuja for the 8th Summit of the Mission.
“Let us always remember that the personal ambition of anybody is not worth destroying the image of the nation.”
Patience Jonathan will be stepping down as First Lady of Nigeria on May 29, (the hand-over date) when her husband, Goodluck Jonathan’s adminstration hands over to the incoming administration of Muhammudu Buhari.
The Jonathan’s lost the presidential elections to the Buhari’s by more than two million votes.
Patience Jonathan
Patience, who is the current president will host the mission on Friday in Nigeria after she summoned a meeting of the mission so as to appoint new executive members.
Patience denied reports that alleged the election would be held before May 29 instead of the stated July date so as to deny Aisha Buhari the chance to be president of the mission.
A media assistant to the First Lady, Ayo Adewuyi, in a statement on Tuesday explained why Patience would be hosting the mission.
Adewuyi disclosed that Patience was elected president of the mission in July 2012 for a two-year term as per the group’s regulations and her tenure was to end in 2014 and fresh elections held.
Adewuyi continued saying that the 2015 elections in Nigeria prevented the First Lady from hosting the mission as she was preoccupied with campaigning for her party – the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)- and her husband’s re-election.
Due to this set-back, Patience pleaded with her colleagues to wait until July 2015 which will be after the general elections in Nigeria.
Adewuyi however said that there was an agreement among members of the committee that Patience Jonathan will host a summit in May 2015 if her husband, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan failed in his re-election attempt. The summit will be used to hand over power to a new government.
The Punch quotes the statement saying, “Arising from the above, it is therefore clear that this is not a personal matter nor specifically a Nigeria sole affair but a continental platform governed by its own rules and protocols just as similar international organisations.
“It would therefore be out of place for anyone to insinuate that it is intended to shut out the incoming First Lady. This cannot be farther from the truth.
“We state therefore without any iota of equivocation that it is mischievous for anyone to scheme to cause disaffection between the outgoing and incoming First Ladies, Dame Patience Jonathan, and Hajia Aisha Buhari.
“Let us therefore come together in our tradition of hospitality to heartily welcome our guests, the African First Ladies, as they arrive Abuja for the 8th Summit of the Mission.
“Let us always remember that the personal ambition of anybody is not worth destroying the image of the nation.”
Patience Jonathan will be stepping down as First Lady of Nigeria on May 29, (the hand-over date) when her husband, Goodluck Jonathan’s adminstration hands over to the incoming administration of Muhammudu Buhari.
The Jonathan’s lost the presidential elections to the Buhari’s by more than two million votes.
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