A few days after breaking the news that President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience Jonathan, was hospitalized in Germany, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s Minister for Petroleum Resources, is now also receiving treatment in a London hospital for a serious medical condition.
One of our sources disclosed that Mrs. Madueke’s condition did not require immediate hospitalization, but described it as “potentially serious.” The source, who is a medical doctor, was only willing to divulge that the minister’s diagnosis is for a condition related to abnormal cell development in her body. The doctor declined to disclose if the diagnosis was a form of cancer, but said Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s condition “assumed a dire dimension recently.”
The medical source and another source close to the minister’s family told us that, prior to her recent hospitalization, Mrs. Alison-Madueke had made monthly medical trips to the UK. One source disclosed that she sometimes used private jets arranged by Kola Aluko, a business tycoon with whom she has business ties.
We gathered that the Petroleum minister owns a jet that is kept in trust for her by Walter Wagbatsoma, an oil marketer recently charged by the EFCC for involvement in oil subsidy scam.
We learnt that the minister hid the medical nature of her trips to London by telling friends and other government officials that she was going to see her children living in the UK. “For this trip three days ago, Madam said she was escorting her children who were returning to London to continue their schooling,” one of our sources said.
One source revealed that the minister flew to London few days after accompanying Mr. Jonathan on an official trip to Anambra State. Even though the minister is married, there have been persistent speculations linking her to a romantic relationship with President Jonathan.
We learnt that the president’s ailing wife had complained to her close friends that Mrs. Alison-Madueke had caused her condition because the oil minister wants to take her place at all cost.
Meanwhile, a source told us that Mrs. Jonathan’s condition has stabilized in Germany where she is being treated for food poisoning. The source said the First Lady came down with food poisoning in Dubai where she had gone on a secret mission to explore undergoing some procedure.
The nature of the procedure remains a mystery, but a source at the Presidency said he knew that Mrs. Jonathan close friend, Bola Shagaya, had been persuading her to see a Lebanon-based cosmetic surgeon.
The source added that the First Lady was interested in enhancing her looks.
Source SaharaReporters
Posted: at 5-09-2012 10:53 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
I see. If na sickness wan collect some of the loots, so be it. So they dont have confidence in Naija hospitals. Germany, London. Where next? Going, going, going.
Posted: at 5-09-2012 11:12 AM (12 years ago) | Hero
una see wetin pounded yam ,Garri and egusi soup do to our Nigeria first lady Dame Patience Jonathan she no go kill person with her big big Oyinbo grammatical errors made by Madam ....I hope Aso Rock do something about it, berfore her gueste begin to ask for an English interpreter in a country that speaks as its official language.....NAIJA una too much oo coffee wey I dey drink for hia comot for my nose as I read this
Posted: at 5-09-2012 07:00 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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