Tag: Patience Jonathan

Patience Jonathan rules out return to Aso Villa, pledges support for Remi Tinubu

Aminu Imam
Patience Jonathan rules out

Former First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan has dismissed any possibility of returning to Nigeria’s presidential villa, instead pledging her support for First Lady Senator Oluremi Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general elections. Jonathan expressed her backing for the current administration during an award event in Abuja on Saturday where she was honoured with the ‘Women Icon Leader of the Year’ award by Accolade Dynamics Limited. At the ceremony, she acknowledged the efforts of Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, daughter of the president and Iyaloja-General of Nigeria, for her role in advancing women’s causes.…

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2027: “Jonathan wont run for presidency” – Wife

Aminu Imam
Dame Patience

Insists GEJ isnt looking for anything again in politics Contrary to speculations in some quarters, there are strong indications that former President, Goodluck Jonathan, would not bow to pressure to contest for the Presidency in 2027. His wife and former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, gave this hint in Abuja, when she hosted Greater Igbo Forum (GIF) Worldwide, led by its President, Ambassador Lois Jonathan, when the group paid a courtesy visit on the former First Lady. While responding to the group, Dame Patience Jonathan went down memory lane on…

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“God pulled us out of leadership; Nigerias stress too much” Patience Jonathan

Aminu Imam
Patience Jonathan

Former Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan, has revealed that God aided their departure from the Presidential Villa, citing the overwhelming stress of being in the spotlight. Mrs. Jonathan, the wife of former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, said since leaving the presidential villa, she has become younger. Patience Jonathan, who said these while delivering a speech on: Public relations, value-reorientation, and economic transformation, added that she would never return to the villa as the stress was too much. The former First Lady was speaking on Thursday, at a colloquium organised to…

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EFCC resumes $8.4m fraud case against Patience Jonathan

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has resumed its case against ex-first lady, Patience Jonathan. Justice T.G. Ringim, of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, yesterday adjourned till October 7, 2021 to hear a motion filed by the Commission seeking the final forfeiture of the $5.78million and N2.4billion linked to a former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. The EFCC had filed an application for the forfeiture of the sums of money warehoused in Skye Bank Plc and Ecobank Plc, respectively in 2017 before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun. Following…

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