Sources say she will continue her medical treatment here in Nigeria as she has not fully regained her health.
A
presidential jet was scheduled to fly out of Abuja last night to bring
home Nigeria's ailing First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan. Presidency
sources told SaharaReporters yesterday that Mrs. Jonathan will return to
the country 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.
Source: Endy Edeson ONLINE NEWS Network
