Patience Jonathan: to use Samuel
Ogbemudia Stadium while Aisha Buhari waits
Patience Jonathan, wife of the
president has got the nod to use Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium by the Edo State
Government despite applying for the stadium after Aisha Buahri, wife of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate did same.
For avoidance of trouble, Governor
Adams Oshiomhole of Edo pleaded with Mrs Buhari to allow Patience Jonathan use
the stadium in a bid to allow peace reign in the state.
In a statement signed by Louis
Odion, Commissioner of Information and Orientation, he said: “The mix-up in the
use of the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium on Saturday, March 14, 2015 was occasioned
by the laxity on the part of the officials of the Ministry of Sports who,
without reference to their supervisors, proceeded to collect money and issue
receipt only yesterday (Tuesday) to the PDP for use of the stadium knowing full
well that the APC had, last week, applied for and got approval for use of same
facility same day.
“In fact, jingles were already
running on local television and radio stations announcing that the wife of
APC’s presidential candidate, Hajia Aisha Buhari, would be in Benin on
Saturday, March 14, 2015 to deliver the message of change to Edo women.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we wish
to state that being the owner of the said facility, Edo State Government
reserves the right to insist that the party that got approval first be allowed
use of the stadium. In the circumstance, we imagine the idle denizens of Edo
PDP must by now be salivating at the prospects of having an opportunity to
unleash mayhem on peace-loving people of Edo State with the excuse that money
was collected from them.
“But as civilized people, Comrade
Adams Oshiomhole has directed that Mrs. Patience Jonathan, the First Lady, be granted
use of the stadium on Saturday, while Hajia Aisha Buhari, wife of the APC
presidential candidate will have her turn on another day,” the statement read
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