It
is a classic case of ‘One Week, One Controversy’! And the inimitable Dame, Mrs. Patience
Jonathan, has been in the news again. She hardly disappoints. Perhaps, before
your read this piece, Mrs. Jonathan would have returned from Germany where she
had gone “to have some rest,” or receive medical treatment, or both, depending
on whom you choose to believe between the media, opposition parties and Aso Rock spokespersons. Or her husband, our president, would have
decided to come clean about her exact state of health and whereabouts.
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| *Mrs Patience Jonathan
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But
the latter may eventually not happen. Indeed, President Goodluck Jonathan
understands this game very well. So, he is not unduly perturbed by all the din
saturating the polity because of what his wife chooses to do with herself or
not to say about her health condition. Yes, he does not “give a damn” because he
knows full well that no sooner than his wife’s plane touches down in Abuja, and
she sweeps across the red carpet like the marvelous Dame that she is, than she would
stumble onto another controversy which would immediately and effectively kill
and bury the present one over which the media and the opposition have raised ear-splitting
cries. And so life goes on. Who, for instance, is still talking about her controversial
appointment as Permanent Secretary in Baylesa State or the famous purchase, (or
is it donation or lending or all three?) of posh cars scandal that embarrassed
us all during the African First Ladies Summit in Abuja recently.
