The First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan has described as a blatant lie, the allegation leveled by Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State that she (First Lady) asked him to bring Rivers State money to share.
Governor Amaechi had said on Saturday during the celebration of his 7th anniversary in Port Harcourt, that Mrs. Jonathan was angry with him because he refused to share Rivers money with her.
Reacting through her Media Assistant, Ayo Adewuyi, the First Lady said the allegation was a deliberate attempt to denigrate her person and to ridicule the Presidency.
She denied ever requesting money from the Governor, insisting it was aimed at scoring cheap political point.
The statement reads:
“Having waited patiently for Governor Amaechi to refute the statement credited to him about the First Lady, (with the assumption that he was misquoted), it has become clear that it was a deliberate attempt to malign Dame Patience Jonathan and score cheap political point.
”The Governor may have been by the political uncertainty surrounding him to make such a jaundiced and unsubstantiated allegation that the First Lady asked him to bring Rivers State money to share.
This is a blatant lie designed to denigrate the person of Dame Patience Jonathan and rubbish the Presidency.
“This is to say the least most unfortunate.
“It is crystal clear that Governor Amaechi is looking for cheap excuse for his failure in the governance of the state.
We say without any iota of equivocation that the First Lady never made such request and could not have done so in any way either directly and indirectly.
“The First Lady as an indigene of Rivers State is more concerned with socio-economic development of the State and in a peaceful atmosphere.
“This guerilla political warfare must stop”.
