If feelers from Aso Rock is anything to go by, then it appears all is not well with the First Family. This is coming as reports from our state house correspondent made us aware that the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, might have joined the teaming population that is not happy with his wife, dame Patience Jonathan.
Our investigations revealed that president Jonathan after subsequently cautioning his wife about her overbearing attitude in politics related issues, which has led to creating more political enemies for him and probably making his re-election bid more taxing has decided to make the office of the first lady vacant.
The reports cited the First lady’s role in the forthcoming elections in her home state, Rivers State, where she has endorsed her anointed PDP candidate and have vouched to ensure he is the next Governor after Gov. Rotimi Amaechi, without consulting with the Echelons of the Party. A state where some people believe PDP has lost her onetime stronghold to APC, partly due to the first lady’s unnecessary interference. Others include her taking up an unnecessary permanent Secretary appointment in Bayelsa state ministry of education, an office she has resigned from recently due to political differences with the state Governor, in addition to repeatedly making contrary statement from the position of the presidency and her husband’s party PDP.
It is worthy of Note, that the office of the first lady is not recognized by the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria, but it has now become a norm for budgetary allocations, appointment of several aides and running of electoral campaigns in form of PET projects amongst others to be functions of a first lady.
However, it could be recalled that during former president Obasanjo’s tenor as president, after the painful and untimely death of our dear first lady, Stella Obasanjo, OBJ went on to complete his remaining two years in office without a first lady. A feat previously done by Shehu Shagari and General Buhari.
As at the time of this report, we cannot confirm if this move to remove power, withdraw aides and return Patience”mama P” to just his house wife, is related to the initial reports from the state house that disclosed President Jonathan’s plan of getting married to a second wife come 2015 elections. As usual we promise to keep you informed, even as we hope this alienation of first lady, patience Jonathan is in the best interest of the country and as we wait to see if the APC will try to woo her as they normally do.
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