Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan is out of the country. According to aviation and presidency sources, the First Lady left Abuja for Europe a few hours ago.
Dame Patience Jonathan’s trip, according to Presidency sources, is for medical reasons. “Madam went overseas for medical reasons and nothing else. She is not well and had to go see her doctors.”
Elendureports.com asked the source if the doctor’s appointment was made previously or if it was an emergency. The source simply replied: “I do not know. I have told you all I know.”
The First Lady’s departure was not without some mild drama. At the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport where she departed from an Immigration officer was alleged to have been threatened by one of the First Lady’s bodyguards.
According to sources at the airport, one of the First Lady’s bodyguards had taken her passport to be stamped at the Immigration desk. The Immigration officer observed that certain documents did not accompany the passport. Also, the State Security Service (SSS) should have stamped the passport before being presenting it to the Immigration desk. The officer informed Dame Patience’s bodyguard to get the proper documentations and stamp before presenting the passport to her.
Elendureports was told that Dame Jonathan’s bodyguard insisted that the passport should be stamped immediately by the officer. When the Immigration officer refused to yield, the bodyguard allegedly pulled out a service revolver and ordered her to stamp the passport.
It is not known when the First Lady is scheduled to return from her trip.
Airports in Nigeria have not been operating normally due to the on-going nationwide strike called by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress to protest the removal of fuel subsidy.
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