8 sins of patience jonathan

Youths from Bayelsa creeks suspected to be ex- militants, have issued a stern warning to Dame Patience, wife of President Goodluck Jonathan not to accompany her husband to the state during the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) presidential rally scheduled to hold on February 5. The recent warning from the youths, under the aegis of the Mangrove Boys of Bayelsa, MBB, is coming a few days after a group which called itself, Bayelsa Youth Vanguard, BYV issued a similar one, barring Patience from attending the proposed rally. The youths are barring the First Lady from Bayelsa over her alleged involvement in an alleged plot to embarrass the state governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, during the forthcoming presidential rally in the state, Punch reports. They said Patience would be thoroughly disgraced and have herself to blame if she failed to heed their warning. In a statement yesterday by their President, Mr. Opuyo Engobara, and Secretary, Mr. Warrman Aderi, the youths listed eight sins of the president’s wife. 1. She opened a new secretariat for the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria in the state with an intention to use the group to mobilise against the governor. 2. The First Lady tinkered with the leadership of TAN and aided her loyalists to reposition the campaign group to actualise her ambition of removing Dickson. 3. She used the occasion of the sharing of the Millennium Development Goals items at the Samson Siasia Stadium to make inflammatory statements against the governor. 4. She aided her anointed governorship aspirant, Mr. Waripamowei Dudafa, to recruit youths to boo and stone Governor Seriake Dickson, at the proposed rally. 5. She attended a function in Dudafa’s town where she made open statements supporting him as the next governor. 6. She sponsored aspirants that failed in the PDP primaries, to defect to the All Progressives Grand Alliance. 7. In her last visit to the state, Mrs. Jonathan was said to have come ahead of her husband, avoided the state Government Lodge and stayed at Otuoke for three days. 8. Her actions and pronouncement in recent times had allegedly been fuelling crisis in the state. The group decried Jonathan’s silence over his wife’s alleged excesses saying: “ Is President Jonathan using this as a ploy to join Bayelsa youths to stone Governor Dickson as promised (by the President) during his presidential campaign in 2011 and subsequently to oust Dickson’s administration, since he could hardly rebuke his wife in several of her political atrocities ?” They insisted that the First Lady’s presence at the proposed rally would cause tension and security breaches in the state. Meanwhile, in reaction to the threat, a coalition of seven youth groups from the state, have declared their readiness to rally round Dame Patience, Vanguard reports. The youths, under the aegis of the Jonathan Youth Vanguard, JOY 2015, warned trouble makers to steer clear of the PDP presidential rally, vowing to deal with anti-Patience elements, threatening to disrupt the proposed rally if the First Lady accompanied her husband to the state. According to the state Coordinator JOY 2015, Mr. Daniel Etai, who spoke on behalf of the coalition, said it will be suicidal for anybody to think of preventing the First Lady from coming to the state. Patience Jonathan has been very active in her husband’s re- election campaign. At the PDP Rally in Enugu she expressed confidence that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the only party that represents the interest of Nigerian woman