"First Lady" Undergoes Surgery In Germany

Contrary to denials by presidential spokesman
Reuben Abati, and the bare faced lie by Dame
Patience Jonathan’s spokesman, Ayo Osinlu that
the first lady is only “resting” in a foreign country,
it has been revealed that the First Lady, Mrs
Patience Jonathan, has undergone surgery in a
German hospital for ruptured appendicitis.
According to THISDAY sources, she was flown out
for medical treatment over a week ago.
Mrs. Jonathan was said to have been accompanied
on the trip by a medical personnel from the
Presidential Villa, and a few of her aides.
THISDAY gathered that the decision to fly her
abroad followed her deteriorating health condition
in Abuja, after she was initially treated for “food
poisoning.”
It was learnt that Mrs. Jonathan, shortly after
returning from a trip to the United Arab Emirates
(UAE), took ill, prompting the invitation of the
First Family’s medical personnel to attend to her.
She was said to have been treated for food
poisoning for four days, “but her condition kept
worsening by the day,” the source said.
By the fifth day, President Goodluck Jonathan was
said to have yielded to the suggestion that she be
flown abroad for “thorough treatment.” It was not
certain if the inability of the president’s doctors to
treat her was because of faulty diagnosis or
insufficient facilities.
According to the source, “the trip was therefore
hurriedly, but discretely arranged, after a German
hospital, suspected to be Horst Schmidt Klinik in
Wiesbaden, Germany, had been contacted”. By last
weekend, she was said to have regained “full
consciousness” on her sick bed and was willing to
return home