The All Progressives Congress has accused the Presidency of
violating the Independent National Electoral Commission's
rule which bars political parties and aspirants from
campaigning for the 2015 elections.
The party's National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
who stated this in a statement on Sunday, referred to the
women's rally organised in Abuja by President Goodluck
Jonathan's wife, Patience on Thursday.
The APC asked the Presidency to tell Nigerians why it had defied
INEC rules by continuing to campaign for the 2015 elections
contrary to INEC's directive.
It urged the commission to sanction anyone responsible for the
rally.
But the Presidency said the rally was organised by the National
Council of Women Societies in conjunction with the President's
wife's office and that it would be unpatriotic of anybody to view
the rally as a campaign for 2015 elections.
The APC said that Patience, at the rally, campaigned for her
husband's 2015 ambition.
The APC stance was in reaction to the President's Senior Special
Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe's criticisms of its
leaders, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and Lagos State
former Governor, Bola Tinubu.
The opposition party's statement read in part, ''While one of the
PDP gong-bearers, Okupe, was telling Nigerians that President
Jonathan has not informed anyone that he will contest in 2015,
his wife was coercing hundreds of hapless women, including
those in uniform, into a show of shame tagged a "peace rally'',
but in essence, a campaign for President Jonathan ahead of 2015.
"Defying INEC, this brazen campaign featured women clad in
specially-made 'ankara' that bore the picture of President
Jonathan and reminds one of the disgraceful days of the late
despot Mobutu Sese Seko of former Zaire, and the late clownish
leader of Uganda, Idi Amin. What a company to keep in the 21st
century!
"In what must rank as the first of its kind in Nigeria, women
drawn from various security agencies - the same that will be
expected to provide security for the 2015 elections - were coerced
into a march of shame, as organisers of the campaign,
masquerading as a peace rally ,blocked traffic and prevented
citizens from earning their daily bread."
The party called on "INEC to mete out appropriate sanctions to
anyone, who has violated its ban on early campaigns for the 2015
elections, in view of the First Lady-driven phantom peace rally
that is actually a facade for electioneering campaign, if the
electoral umpire's ban on such campaigns is to be taken
seriously."
The APC challenged the Presidency's image- makers to tell
Nigerians why the Peoples Democratic Party had failed to lift the
country in the past 14 years.
Reacting to APC's allegations on Sunday, Okupe said, "The first
lady never organised a campaign. That (the rally) was not a
campaign. There was nothing PDP in that programme. That
programme was organised by the National Council of Women
Societies.
Another aide of Jonathan, the President's Special Adviser on
Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, told one of our correspondents
that the women's rally was to promote peace, describing
opposition to the rally as unpatriotic.
Gulak said, "It is wrong to say that the rally was for 2015
elections. The rally was for peace. This country needs peace and
anybody or group who is against peace is unpatriotic, especially
with the security challenges in parts of the country.
"On the use of the President's photographs on their clothes,
President Jonathan is the leader of the country and that is the
reason. That does not mean that they were campaigning for the
President."

http://m.naij.com/news/44096.html

Will that earn them the victory comes 2015 general election? If they say it is not for political campaign; then the apc also should organise thier own women rally and claim same as well instead of giving biaslistic interpretation to every issue in the country. perhaps who knows what they would have done if they were the ones in aso rock.

Lai

Shobayo Emma: will that earn them the victory comes 2015 general election? if they say it is not for political campaign; then the apc also should organise thier own women rally and claim same as well.

Guy, No e play dat kain stunt again with moi oooo ...... I suppose comment before you na cuz U booked space come modify !!

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Another aide of Jonathan, the President's Special Adviser on
Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, told one of our correspondents
that the women's rally was to promote peace, describing
opposition to the rally as unpatriotic.
Gulak said, "It is wrong to say that the rally was for 2015
elections. The rally was for peace. This country needs peace
and
anybody or group who is against peace is unpatriotic,
especially
with the security challenges in parts of the country.
"On the use of the President's photographs on their clothes,
President Jonathan is the leader of the country and that is the
reason. That does not mean that they were campaigning for
the
President."

Now this part got me cracking my ribs.

Jonathan's regime is like Military regime. They do what they want, how they want and when they want and noooooo mora4ka can touch them. Awon Oloriburuku dede.

[quote author=berem] Another aide of Jonathan, the President's Special Adviser on
Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, told one of our correspondents
that the women's rally was to promote peace, describing
opposition to the rally as unpatriotic.
Gulak said, "It is wrong to say that the rally was for 2015
elections. The rally was for peace. This country needs peace
and
anybody or group who is against peace is unpatriotic,
especially
with the security challenges in parts of the country.
"On the use of the President's photographs on their clothes,
President Jonathan is the leader of the country and that is the
reason. That does not mean that they were campaigning for
the
President."


Can this dumba$$ listen to himself at all. Even primary 1 pikin will do a better public relation. GEJ and all his unintelligent aides have successfully raised the bar when it comes to cluelessness.

^^^ I dey tell you! Jonathan's spokesmen are as dumb as he is. WTF!

Baba_Eleko: Jonathan's regime is like Military regime. They do what they want, how they want and when they want and noooooo mora4ka can touch them. Awon Oloriburuku dede.

One day peace will seize to exist in there house. If this is what you call peace rally. To make other people's life difficult is called peace, God you dey see oh.

berem:
Another aide of Jonathan, the President's Special Adviser on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, told one of our correspondents
that the women's rally was to promote peace, describing opposition to the rally as unpatriotic.

Gulak said, "It is wrong to say that the rally was for 2015 elections. The rally was for peace. This country needs peace and
anybody or group who is against peace is unpatriotic, especially with the security challenges in parts of the country.

With the widely reported news and pictures of the massive lockdown of major roads in Abuja because of a rally that involved the first lady, the resultant traffic congestions and attendant loss of unquantifiable man-hours by hapless citizen, it is unpatriotic for the President aide to be defending the indefensible.

What is a rally to promote peace when all the first lady harped on in her speech was constitution provisions for affirmative action.

What is a rally to promote peace when rented crowds adorned in Aso-Ebi in a typical Owambe gathering was the order of the day?

What is a rally to promote peace when road users were denied their rights to free movement and forced to spend agonizing hours in traffic because some folks were having a ball?

What is a rally to promote peace when a first lady that should be grateful and humble is the one inconveniencing the populace with her unchecked excesses ?

Maxymilliano:

With the widely reported news and pictures of the massive lockdown of major roads in Abuja because of a rally that involved the first lady, the resultant traffic congestions and attendant loss of unquantifiable man-hours by hapless citizen, it is unpatriotic for the President aide to be defending the indefensible.

What is a rally to promote peace when all the first lady harped on in her speech was constitution provisions for affirmative action.

What is a rally to promote peace when rented crowds adorned in Aso-Ebi in a typical Owambe gathering was the order of the day?

What is a rally to promote peace when road users were denied their rights to free movement and forced to spend agonizing hours in traffic because some folks were having a ball?

What is a rally to promote peace when a first lady that should be grateful and humble is the one inconveniencing the populace with her unchecked excesses ?

Rally peace My left yansh!!

Why didn't she organize a peaceful rally to protest against the child marriage?

Why didn't she protest about almost 30 percent of jobless youths in this country?

why didn't she protest against the bad roads in Nigeria especially the one that killed her mother?

Why? Patience Jonathan, Why?

And highly disappointed.

Maybe someone should also talk about the posters that keep coming up in Abuja at midnight with buhari/fashola/tinubu/rochas et al. Having their names and faces!

That one no be indirect sensitization/campaign?


This kind ITK opposition !


Oga Jonathan, I didn't like you before because I was always looking out for faults, not now again ! I have decided to see the good side of your administration

Na you for 2015, if you still want 2019, I go support your adjustments !

berem: Rally peace My left yansh!!

Why didn't she organize a peaceful rally to protest against the child marriage?

Why didn't she protest about almost 30 percent of jobless youths in this country?

why didn't she protest against the bad roads in Nigeria especially the one that killed her mother?

Why? Patience Jonathan, Why?

And highly disappointed.

you shouldn't be disappointed

You have never really liked her so it's not like you were expecting something better and got disappointed.

berem: Rally peace My left yansh!!

Why didn't she organize a peaceful rally to protest against the child marriage?

Why didn't she protest about almost 30 percent of jobless youths in this country?

why didn't she protest against the bad roads in Nigeria especially the one that killed her mother?

Why? Patience Jonathan, Why?

And highly disappointed.

Good points you got there. But as you know, some Nigerians will come on here to defend her no matter what. It is safe to watch from the sideline nowadays. I guess Soyinka said it all,she is a shepopotamus .

If the news making the round that the so-called rally organised was actually an election campaign in support for Jonathan,then it's up to INEC,as the electoral umpire to show us that it is impartial and unbiased. For all we know,INEC,like other government agencies that are suppose to be independent of executive manipulation,has repeatedly shown that it is toothless and powerless when it comes to enforcing sanctions and penalties for violating it's rules,most especially when it involve the incumbent party. Let's wait and see what INEC will do.

By the way,with her behaviour and recklessness,it's obvious that Dame PEJ is afraid of stepping out of power. She is trying to stay put at all cost.

I think APC rally in ekiti, oyo nd others should also be tagged election campaign nw

berem: Rally peace My left yansh!!

Why didn't she organize a peaceful rally to protest against the child marriage?

Why didn't she protest about almost 30 percent of jobless youths in this country?

why didn't she protest against the bad roads in Nigeria especially the one that killed her mother?

Why? Patience Jonathan, Why?

And highly disappointed.

I agree with you as the mother of this nation she has neglected her children grossly!