THE Presidency has refuted claims that First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, has fallen ill again and has consequently withdrawn from a planned trip with President Goodluck Jonathan to Namibia and South Africa. A statement issued by her Special Assistant on Media, Ayo Osinlu, in Abuja, on Tuesday, said the report, which appeared in an online publication, was an attempt to mislead the innocent public and demonize the First Lady.
“We wish to state emphatically that the report is absolutely untrue and a creation of the wicked expectations of Sahara Reporters and those who pay their bills.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we state again that 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, in perfect expression of his statutory duty to foster both bi-lateral and multi-lateral advantages for the country.
“The First 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.”
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