Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan has been scheduled to return to the country today (Thursday) after about six weeks of undergoing treatment abroad, Saharareporters, reported.
The report said a presidential jet was scheduled to fly out of Abuja on Wednesday night to bring the First Lady back home. Saharareporters quoted presidency sources on Wednesday as saying that the wife of the President would return to the country early today barring any unexpected developments,.
According to the report, Patience was flown overseas nearly six weeks ago after developing complications from a cosmetic procedure she had undertaken in Dubai.
It further said that upon returning to Nigeria from Dubai, the President’s wife was allegedly flown to Germany in an air ambulance following an emergency which allegedly diagnosed her with “food poisoning”.
SaharaReporters said its investigation revealed that her condition was more complicated and precarious. Among others, in the early stages she lost her power of speech for four days.
Her spokesman, Ayo Osinlu, had earlier told journalists that the President’s wife was only resting abroad after the stress of hosting African First Ladies recently.
Jonathan on Saturday visited his wife in Germany in the company of two of their children.
The visit was aired on the Nigerian Television Authority on Sunday evening.
In the short footage, Patience was seen to be in high spirit as she took photographs with the children as well as her husband and members of his delegation.
Efforts to speak with Osinlu on Wednesday did not yield result as he did not pick calls made to his mobile telephone line.