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...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
Gentlemen of the media,
Let me start by expressing the gratitude of our Campaign
Organization 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 organizations, about a despicable and wicked agenda that is
being orchestrated by the opposition to scandalize, 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 organized 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 outright 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
legislation's 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 Organization 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. Thirdly 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 Organization 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.
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