The
Presidency yesterday denied fresh report on the health status of the First
Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan.
The Presidency was reacting to an online publication, which said
Mrs. Jonathan’s health had “deteriorated again”.
The report, which claimed the First Lady had been dropped from
President Goodluck Jonathan’s state visits to Namibia and South Africa, said
“sources which informed of the medical situation stated that Mrs. Jonathan
remained unwell after returning from Germany about three weeks ago”.
According to the report, since returning from that trip, the
First Lady has remained under medical observation at the Presidential Villa. It
said: “Her latest trip to Germany is the third medical trip since her prolonged
trip last year where she spent several months in a Wiesbaden hospital.
“Although she denied those details upon her return, in a
thanksgiving service in February 2013, she confessed her travails, including
nine surgeries within one month, and declaring she had died but was saved by
God.”
The Presidency, however, described the report as the “latest in
the series of deliberate efforts to mislead the innocent public and demonise
the First Lady”. The reaction is contained in a statement signed by Special
Assistant on Media to the Office of the First Lady, Ayo Osinlu.
The statement reads in part: “We wish to state emphatically that
the report is absolutely untrue and a creation of the wicked expectations of
Sahara Reporters and those who pay their bills.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we state again that the First Lady
is not an official of the Federal Government of Nigeria, and is therefore not
under obligation to join every foreign trip made by her husband, in perfect
expression of his statutory duty to foster both bi-lateral and multi-lateral
advantages for the country.”
Source: National Mirror
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