Nigeria\u2019s outgoing First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan has called on Nigerians not to weep for her and President Goodluck Jonathan over the loss of March 28, 2015 presidential election.<\/p>\n
Dame Jonathan made this call Thursday in Abuja at a farewell\/award ceremony organised for her by the National Council of Women Societies, NCWS, to bid farewell to her as the grand-patron of the association.<\/p>\n
Patience Jonathan charged Nigerians to join her in thanking God because, according to her, not all presidents and their wives, who entered Aso Rock, came out together.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet us not destroy ourselves because of politics, politics is not a do or die affair; somebody who has been a deputy-governor, a governor, vice-president, acting-president and president, what again are you looking for? <\/p>\n
“Mr. President has done what nobody has done in this country. So, I want you people to help me and thank God that I and my husband came out of the office together alive\u201d.<\/p>\n
She also maintained that, although she is leaving office on the 29th of May 2015, her door is still open whenever her service is needed in the country.<\/p>\n
National Council of Women Societies, NCWS, is an umbrella of all women organizations in Nigeria in which any seating president\u2019s wife automatically becomes the grand-patron. <\/p>\n
The First Lady therefore urged the association to work and support the incoming administration as they supported her and her husband.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not be afraid, do not be shaking because my successor will be there for you, let us love and help one another for us to succeed,\u201d Patience Jonathan said.<\/p>\n
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