Something to spice up your morning. Tinubu camp jittery as Patience Jonathan declares herself as factional Iyaloja of Lagos First lady, Patience Jonathan, has shifted her holy war against autocrats from Rivers state to Lagos state. In a massive rally at the Aso Rock market, Abuja, she vowed that she would not fold her arms and watch Lagos godfather, Bola Tinubu, get away with imposing his daughter as the new Iyaloja of Lagos. She said that if he is a democrat as he claims to be, he should throw the Iyaloja race open as she has an interest to run for the highest market office in the land. She said if he doesn’t do that, then she would have no other option than to proclaim herself as the rightful Iyaloja. Already she has hired consultants from the Plateau and Akwa Ibom governor’s office on “how to run a factional union.” She said it was unfair that Tinubu chose to impose his daughter as the leader of market women taking away the one role she knew she was very competent in. Addressing sympathetic market leaders, she gave her 3-point reason why she deserved to be market leader. She said, “My fellow market women, after spending 10 days in Rivers State since week before last, I have seen that becoming Rivers governor is not my portion. Just like Tinubu’s wife said, becoming governor is not for a soft-hearted woman like me. And me I don’t want to be vice president like Tinubu’s wife because me and Jonah on one ticket would pain Sambo well-well. So that’s why I want to come and be your leader.” Speaking further, she said, “I deserve to be Iyaloja because I am the greatest patroniser of market women. Ask Tinubu’s daughter whether her husband has ever budgeted N1 billion for food. But that’s what my husband spends. So since I am the one that buys food more than everyone else in this country, I deserve to be Iyaloja.” In closing, Dame Jonathan said, “Finally, all these newspaper people say I talk too much abi?” All the women chorused “Yes.” She then said, “Okay, when I was a children, we used to sing a song in school ‘You talk too much, you talk too much, is here a market place?’ So if market place is the place where they talk too much and me I talk too much then I must become the leader of the market people, not so?” And they all chorused, “Na so!” The Snoop
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 06:20:19 +0000