The mother of the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan,
Dame Patience, Mrs. Iwarioba, popularly called Sisi, died
yesterday in a road crash. The accident occurred at Elele
in Rivers State. She was on her way to neighbouring
Bayelsa State.
The accident happened around 4 pm, source said, adding
that Mrs Iwarioba body was moved to Kpaima Mortuary
on Elechi Beach, Mile One, Diobu, Port Harcourt, the
Rivers State capital, around 6 pm, by the self-acclaimed
“Speaker” of Rivers House of Assembly, Evans Bipi,
accompanied by many policemen.
Bipi, who represents Ogu/Bolo Constituency, is a former
aide to the First Lady, who attended his marriage on June
15 at the St. Cyprian’s Anglican Church, Hospital Road,
Port Harcourt, shortly after which she buried her
grandfather at Okrika, during her 10-day visit to Rivers
State.
Dame Patience, an indigene of Okrika, the headquarters
of Okrika Local Government Area in Rivers State, in
Geneva, Switzerland, according to sources who said she
was immediately contacted.
Mrs. Jonathan expressed shock and she felt very bad
over her mother’s death, according to a family source,
who pleaded not to be named.
Details of the accident were sketchy last night, but a
security man at the gate of the Kpaima Mortuary, who
declined to give his name, said many armed policemen
accompanied a body to the private facility, presuming
that the deceased might be a prominent person.
The Rivers Sector Commander of the Federal Road
Safety Commission (FRSC), Dr. Kayode Olagunju, and the
Rivers police spokesperson, Mrs. Angela Agabe, could
not confirm the incident, stressing that they were yet to
get the details from their officers and men at the scene
of the accident.
A source said last night that the late Mrs Iwarioba was
Mrs Jonathan’s stepmother, but this could not be
immediately confirmed.

Source: thenationonlineng.net/new/jonathans-wifes-mum-dies-in-rivers-road-crash/

RIP,
FIRST MOTHER IN-LAW.