Friday 12 July 2013

Video, Rivers State Crisis: Wole Soyinka blasts wife of Nigerian President,Mrs Patience Jonathan for causing uproar in Rivers House of Assembly

Nigeria's foremost human rights activists Professor Wole Soyinka and Femi Falana, SAN, today came down heavily on President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience describing the first lady in particular as a " mere domestic appending of power.
 Professor Soyinka and Falana came down hard on the President for engineering the chaos besetting the Rivers State House of Assembly. The professor condemned the role of Mr. Jonathan and his wife saying the wife has been using the security apparatus of state to intimidate the governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi.

The duo also called on the police hierarchy to remove and prosecute the commissioner of police in Rivers state, Joseph Mbu.
An infuriated Soyinka also asked the media to stop paying attention to the so-called newly elected speaker of Rivers state, Evans Bipi describing him as a clown.

See video after the cut









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