Patience Jonathan is not sick – Aide

First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, had on Tuesday denied the ongoing rumors that her decision not to join President Goodluck Jonathan in his forthcoming official visits to South Africa and Namibia was due to her health.

Special Assistant to the First Lady on Media, Ayo Osinlu, while reacting to an online publication that Mrs Jonathan was dropped from the trip because of health issues stated that “The report is absolutely untrue and a creation of the wicked expectations of the writers.

“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, whose statutory duty is to foster both bi-lateral and multilateral advantages for the country.

”The Family is, therefore, at liberty to determine what trips they make together. Meanwhile, the mischief behind this online medium’s sudden worry that the First Lady is not on the President’s trip abroad is betrayed by the fact that the same medium led its allied choristers to belly-ache in the past about the frequency of her presence by her husband’s side on official engagements outside the country.”

Osinlu added that the First Lady had been involved in series of activities that clearly tells a better story of her positive and improved health.

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