First Lady Patience Jonathan Is Among The Reason For GEJ's Defeat... -PDP Cheif

According to the Bayelsa State publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Osom Makbere, Nigerian First Lady Patience Jonathan, the wife of  President Goodluck Jonathan is among the reason why GEJ lost the March 28 presidential election...

He said there are many reasons for the lost and he also said, APC will worse than PDP.

Read his interview with the punch below, where he said :

"History has stated that no failure, defeat or loss is a product of a single factor. Jonathan's loss could be blamed on a multiplicity of interwoven causes.

"Jonathan was a victim and target of international cum domestic esoteric codes and conspiracies. On the international level, the passage of the anti-gay legislation led to criticisms and face-off with the US, and the West.

"The strides made in the economic sphere, especially domestic rice promotion, calculated by the Jonathan administration to flip economic growth, and boost import substitution, also negatively alerted the West. The shift to China for our railway transformation, and recently, the migration to Russia for arms and ammunition to quelling the insurgency also signalled to the West that Jonathan had started constituting a self-reliant and dependent nation-state, a feat seen too tall by the US and their allies in the West.

"The aforesaid international factors found room to flourish given the obstinacy and impudence on the part of Mrs. Jonathan. The end result of her personal ambition to plant 'self-made' governors triggered face-offs with some governors."

On APC , he said :

"I can tell you that this APC will be worse than the PDP as there is already imminent fear of implosion. "In Kano, for instance, the APC got all 40 constituencies. This meant that none of the PDP candidates were popular enough to emerge but, the PDP maintained their calm and stoicism.

"We do not know what the APC wants. Whenever they win, the PDP congratulates them, but whenever the PDP wins, the APC would induce the election observers and the electoral officers to call for a re-run or cancellation. That is the zenith of desperation."