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Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has warned President Goodluck Jonathan to restrain his wife from her overbearing contributions to the heating of the Rivers State polity.

Speaking at a press conference he addressed in Lagos on Thursday alongside Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), Soyinka also fingered the president as “vicariously liable” should Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi die in the aftermath of the crisis currently engulfing the Rivers State House of Assembly.
“The perception out there in the world is that he (Jonathan) bears a vicarious liability with what is happening in Rivers State,” Soyinka said. “My colleague was with the governor during what amounted to a siege. Anyone who said teargas was not thrown into the premises [of the Governor’s Lodge] is either ignorant or is lying,” he said.
On Patience Jonathan, he said: “Mrs. Jonathan cannot be a First Lady without first learning to be a lady. She is getting away with murder because she has the backing of her husband.

“The president should please curb the excesses of his wife. Too much is too much. The vulgarity has become intolerable. We have now reached the bottom of obscenity and it’s got to stop.”
He also had unkind words for Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph Mbu, whom he branded a “political policeman” in the state.
“Are we waiting for a smoke bomb to be thrown into the Governor’s Lodge before we take action?” he asked.
“Either that, or there could be an accidental discharge similar to the case of the ‘unknown soldier’; only that in Amaechi’s case, it will be the ‘unknown policeman.’ Are we not moving towards absolute monarchism?
“It’s insulting; it’s condescending. I feel, as a citizen, personally insulted. So I wonder what we have done to deserve this level of governmental banality. What is happening in Rivers is only a variation of our old familiar theme.”
He urged the Presidency to concentrate its attention on more threatening problems in the country, such as the unsolved insecurity puzzle rather than witch-haunting a governor.
“We should be bothered about the wastage of our future, and the closure of schools. It is a defeat for schools to be closed,” Soyinka said.
He also urged the media to help the people understand the truth, even in news reports.
“We haven’t reached that moment where anyone is calling the citizens to action. We all have a duty, including the media.
“It is wrong to refer the so-called new ‘Speaker’ in media reports as if he is legitimate. Stop treating this clown as an equal of the elected Speaker, though you can quote him. You can describe him as ‘self-declared’ speaker.
“Help the public to put everything in the right perspective. Preparation of the mind of the public is critical. Don’t call them by a title which they have not earned properly.”
Also speaking, Falana berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for congratulating Hon. Evans Bipi, for whom five legislators launched a failed attempt to each Speaker of the Assembly, Hon. Otelemaba Amachree
“Those who set the engine of illegality in Rivers State are currently outside the country. It follows the same pattern,” he said.
“I will not be surprised if the Presidency soon hosts ‘the new speaker’ just as the president received a man who scored 16 votes and grounded the plane of a man who scored 19 votes.
“Just this morning the minister of finance issued a statement from abroad that she was not responsible for the darkness in the country. Why hasn’t the President issued a directive as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces for the security forces to restore order in Rivers State?”

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