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| Patience Jonathan |
A presidential
jet is scheduled to fly out of Abuja tonight to bring home Nigeria's ailing
First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan.
Presidency
sources told SaharaReporters yesterday that Mrs. Jonathan will return to the
country as early this morning if everything works as planned.
Mrs. Jonathan
was secretly flown out of Abuja nearly six weeks ago, at the end of August,
after she developed complications from a cosmetic procedure she had undertaken
in Dubai.
Upon returning
to Nigeria from Dubai, she was flown out to Germany in an air ambulance
following an emergency which was initially diagnosed as "food
poisoning." Several investigations
by SaharaReporters however revealed that her medical condition was more complicated
and precarious. Among others, in the
early stages she lost her power of speech for four days.
In an effort to
cover up her health condition, the presidency has, during Mrs. Jonathan’s
hospitalization, engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the media, at first
claiming that the First Lady was only resting after a hectic schedule of
hosting the African First Ladies Forum.
Although several
reports have pinpointed the nature of Mrs. Jonathan’s condition since then, the
President and his aides have chosen to hide it from the public despite spending
several millions of dollars in public funds on her treatment.
Last week, the
president's office made available to the public a grainy, three-second video
clip that said showed that Mrs. Jonathan was "hale and hearty." Neither the date nor the location of the
video was identified, but Mr. Jonathan 's spokesperson said the president had
embarked on a secret trip to his wife accompanied by the Presidential villa's
vicar and two of the president's kids.
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