Despite her return to Nigeria in pomp and circumstance about one month ago, First Lady Patience Jonathan is still sick, SaharaReporters sources say.

Saharareporters learned that shortly after the public relations exercise that attended her return, she retired into a medically-induced bed rest that has her kept her away from the public, unable to attend to official duties.

On October 26th Mrs. Jonathan appeared with her husband and the Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko and his wife to cut her 55th birthday cake in the presidential villa, since then she has disappeared from the public.

A presidency source stated that Mrs. Jonathan’s doctors in Germany have also continued to visit and watch her recovery.

When Mrs. Jonathan returned from a prolonged medical trip to Germany in October she spoke effusively about being given a second chance, but denied having been in a hospital.

Our sources say the publicity given her return was designed to end all forms of speculation about her true condition because the presidency had badly miscalculated by not revealing her actual medical status to the country. Contrary to the plans of the presidency, SaharaReporters exposed specific details her husband wanted to keep hidden.

Since her return, Mrs. Jonathan has not been able to accompany her husband on any official trips in or outside of Nigeria, including visits to her home state of Rivers, or that of Mr. Jonathan, Bayelsa.

In addition to all this, she has not attended to her duties in Bayelsa as Permanent Secretary, a position she seized with grand fanfare months before she left the country on an extended trip she said was not for hospital treatment purposes.

It is unclear how long Mrs. Jonathan's bed-rest will continue as she remains inaccessible to the public, or how her absence is impacting her official duties in both Abuja and Bayelsa.

Not again!!

Sorry for the wife of the slowpoke / coconut brain jonathan.
I wish he was the sick one!!!!
Nigeria would have been free from a Block headed Fisherman dullard / Mumu.

Saharareporters should leave Patience alone. Death wish is not a good marketing strategy. Even the owner of Saharareporters will still fall sick one day and will also die like they wished Yar'Adua(RIP).

subterfuge: Sorry for the wife of the slowpoke / coconut brain jonathan.
I wish he was the sick one!!!!
Nigeria would have been free from a Block headed Fisherman dullard / Mumu.

El Rufai is that you? take am easy o, cos na so "stroke" take dey start o.

Abagworo: Saharareporters should leave Patience alone. Death wish is not a good marketing strategy. Even the owner of Saharareporters will still fall sick one day and will also die like they wished Yar'Adua(RIP).

What are you rambling about? What aspect of that report speaks on death as you have above? All it does is highlight a possible reason for why the woman has been out of public sight for the past couple of months, even after it was announced that she is back in Nigeria.

Which kin people be this? If you are afraid that she may die, why push it on SaharaReporters? Sure people die but should we then not even broach the issue at all? Gosh!

^ Sure you dont need me to remind you of the different tales that emanated from the stables of SR over the first Lady's health do you? There's nothing wrong with writing about the first lady or her health but when such write ups become an obsession mostly bordering around the ridiculous (with a few hits of course), you just have to wonder what's driving their obsession.

People go let dem own sickness, begin dey discuss oda pipo own!
Na wah!
Most have never even had a physical exam in their entire lives o!
Make we dey look who go first quench!
Mu che che che che che