President Goodluck Jonathan arrived in New York on Sunday for the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly without the First Lady, Dame Patience, who is in a hospital in Germany, where she is presently being treated for undisclosed ailment.
Dame was expected to join her husband in New York for the UN Assembly, but a team of doctors attending to the ailing first lady in Germany warned of dire consequences on her health should she embark on the trip, under any guise.
It was also gathered from a competent Presidency source that President Jonathan and his wife had planned to use the trip to New York to prove critics wrong and end speculations about the health of his wife.
At the 66th session of the General Assembly last year, President Jonathan was accompanied on the trip by his wife, state governors and other top government officials.
However, since it was not possible for Dame Patience to attend the UN Assembly with her husband, based on what a source described as her critical health condition, Jonathan had to make a stopover in Germany to see his ailing wife before arriving in New York.
Dame Patience is spending her fourth week on hospital bed in Wiesbaden, Germany while the Presidency had kept mum over the health status of the first lady and has not issued any official statement on the matter.
Nigerians have been fed several lies about her true condition. The first lady's Media Aide, Ayo Osinlu, had said she was on vacation and had taken time to rest abroad after hosting the First Lady’s Conference in Abuja
At the 66th session of the General Assembly last year, President Jonathan was accompanied on the trip by his wife, state governors and other top government officials.
However, since it was not possible for Dame Patience to attend the UN Assembly with her husband, based on what a source described as her critical health condition, Jonathan had to make a stopover in Germany to see his ailing wife before arriving in New York.
Dame Patience is spending her fourth week on hospital bed in Wiesbaden, Germany while the Presidency had kept mum over the health status of the first lady and has not issued any official statement on the matter.
Nigerians have been fed several lies about her true condition. The first lady's Media Aide, Ayo Osinlu, had said she was on vacation and had taken time to rest abroad after hosting the First Lady’s Conference in Abuja
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