"Patience Jonathan Is My Jesus Christ" - Anti- Ameachi Lawmaker Says

The leader of the the anti-Rotimi Amaechi
camp of lawmakers in River state, Evans
Bipi, has explained the reasons he led an
onslaught on the state's House of assembly
on Tuesday.
Mr. Bipi, who led a team of five lawmakers,
allegedly backed by thugs, to trigger violence in
the State's House of Assembly, gave three reasons
for his action.
In a video, shot immediately after the fracas, Mr.
Bipi offered reasons that gave credence to the
belief that the primary reason for the ongoing crisis
in the state is all about President Goodluck
Jonathan. None of the reasons bothered on
governance or lack of it.
"Why must he be insulting the president," Mr. Bipi
asked an unidentified fellow restraining him from a
second onslaught on the his colleagues on the
opposite side of the divide.
In another astonishing explanation that might
inflame Christians in Nigeria and around the world,
Mr. Bipi said he was fighting to remove the Rivers
State governor because the governor "insulted" the
First Lady, Patience Jonathan, who he said is his
Jesus Christ on earth.
"Why must he be insulting my mother, my Jesus
Christ on earth?" Mr. Bipi angrily asked the fellow
who apparently hugged him to restrain him from
further violence.
When contacted on the comment, Mr. Bipi said
that the first lady is indeed his Jesus Christ on
earth.
"I have no mother, I have no father. She (Mrs.
Jonathan) is my mother," he said.
Mr. Bipi, believed to be a cousin of the first lady,
explained that he "lived" with her for several years.
He said he could not bear the governor insulting
the president and the most important woman in his
life.
The Rivers State Information Commissioner, Ibim
Semenitari, denied the governor ever insulted
President Jonathan and his wife, Patience.
"The governor of River State holds the president in
very high regards, as well as the First Lady, and
therefore cannot insult any of them," she said. "She
is a daughter of the state and is accorded the
highest respect."
A larger part of Mr. Bipi's rapid rise in politics is
credited to the mentorship of the First Lady.