Wife
of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Friday took on the Nobel
Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, for attributing the crisis in the Rivers
State House of Assembly to her.
In a statement by her spokesman, Ayo
Osinlu, the President’s wife said Soyinka betrayed the moral duty that
expected him, as a respected member of the society, to carefully
consider all shades of issues that informed his opinions on any matter.
Mrs. Jonathan said Soyinka had become an embarrassment to his admirers with his diatribe against her.
The statement read in part, “Unfortunately, Soyinka betrayed moral duty in his recent diatribe against Mrs. Patience Jonathan.
