Patience is said to be hospitalised at the Horst Schmidt Klinik in Wiesbaden, Germany.
While a section of the media said she underwent
surgery for appendicitis, some others said she was being treated for
food poisoning.
Amidst the conflicting reports however, her media
aides insisted that she only travelled abroad to rest after the stress
involved in the hosting of the African First Ladies’ Conference in
Abuja.
They also insisted last week that they did not know when the President’s wife would return to Nigeria.
Her media aide, Ayo Osinlu, had told our
correspondent. “She is not a regular public office holder who has a
specific duration for vacation. Assuming that she has a specific
duration for vacation, then we could have said the vacation will end on a
particular day and she will return on a particular day.
“But as it is, she can decide to return anytime she feels she has rested enough.”
But investigation by our correspondent on Sunday
showed that Patience would come back to the country before the grand
finale of activities marking the celebration of this year’s Independence
anniversary on October 1.
A source in the Office of the First Lady said the
ailing wife of the President had a role to play in one of the programmes
outlined for the celebration and had expressed her desire to personally
play the role.
“It is only when madam does not return to Nigeria to
personally handle the activity allotted to her office in the
independence programme that you can now say that indeed, there is
something wrong,” she said.
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