She is the Nigerian first lady , Dr . Dame Chief
(Mrs). Patience Fakabelema Jonathan (nee
Oba ). Her middle name is FAKABELEMA ,
often shortened to Faka , which
means ‘ Unending Blessings ’ . A permanent
secretary in her native Bayelsa state . Dr Mrs
Patience Jonathan is married to the President
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria , Goodluck
Jonathan. She has thrilled us and made us
laugh over the past few years with a number
of her grammatical blunders. Here are just 20
of the most interesting ones:

20 Funniest Quotes From Patience Jonathan


1. My husband and Sambo is a good people.

2. The President was once a child and the
Senators were once a children .

3. My fellow widows.

4. A good mother takes care of his children .

5. The people sitting before you were once
a children .

6. Yes we are all happy for the effort, , it is
not easy to carry second in an
International competition like this one ,
(addressing press men after Female
Under -19 FIFA World Cup ).

7. The bombers who born them? Wasn ’ t it not
a woman ? They were once a children now a
adult now they are bombing women and
children making some children a widow .

8. My heart feels sorry for these children who
have become widows for loosing their parents
for one reason or another .

9. We should have love for our fellow
Nigerians irrespective of their NATIONALITY .

10. Thank God the Doctors and Nurses
are responding to treatment .

11. I would rather kill myself instead of
committing suicide .

12. Ojukwu is a great man , he died but
his manhood lives on.

13) Chai! Chai! There is God o… there ’ s God
in everything we are doing, continue !

14) Na only you waka come?

15) Vote UMBLERRA and press your finger for
UMBLERRA.

16) My husband , Dr Goodluck Jonathan and
Sambo is a quiet people

17. At least we all have HIV AIDS except that
some of us are negative and some of us are
positive ( On World AIDS day speech)

18) History ’ll not be completely without
OJUKWU.

19) The people sitting before you here were
once a Children

20) I donate my family on behalf of 20million

HER FAMOUS WORDS


“I was just doing my own thing not knowing
that in far away Asia everything was being
noted. I want to assure you all that with God ’ s
help I will do more. My grandma used to say :
`Whatever little you have, share ; If you have a
thousand and you can’ t share, you won ’ t
share a million if you have ’. -Dame Patience
Jonathan while she was being honoured with a
doctorate degree in South Korea , October ,
2013.

“I remember when Chief Obasanjo was the
President of the country, I was close to his late
wife , Stella. We worshiped together in this
chapel . It was a painful moment for me that
time when she (Stella) died and her corpse
was brought here .

“That was how my corpse would have been
brought here . It was not an easy experience
for me . I actually died , I passed out for more
than a week. My intestine and tummy were
opened .

“I am not Lazarus but my experience was
similar to his . My doctors said all hope was
lost.

“A black doctor in London who is with us in
this service was flown in when the situation
became critical . It was God himself in His
infinite mercy that said I will return to Nigeria .
God woke me up after seven days .

“I know that some people somehow leaked the
information that I was dead . They are people
that I trust and rely on; to them, I was dead
and I would never return to the country alive.
Some of them even sold my things off .

“I won ’t say everything here . It is the Lord ’ s
doing that I returned alive. When God says
yes , nobody can say no .

“People are always afraid of operation
(surgery ) but in my own case , while my travail
lasted, I was begging for it ( surgery) after the
third operation because I was going to the
theatre everyday.

“It was God who saw me through . I did eight
or nine operations within one month. It was not
an easy one .

“The day I came back , I said God I have
nothing to say , I offer myself to you. I will be
doing things that will touch the lives of the less
privileged.

Cracking****

your first lady deserves some respect from you. Foolish OP