Ex-First Lady, Patience Jonathan’s Flips Side
She was once powerful, influential and highly connected. When her husband, former President Goodluck Jonathan, held the reins of power in the country, her word was law. Before our very eyes, Patience, fondly called Mama Peace, rose from obscurity to prominence.
The then-first lady had large hangerson. Many sought her listening ears for so many things. Life couldn’t be any better.
But the return of General Muhammadu Buhari as a presidential candidate of the APC was no more but a killjoy for her. Also, Buhari’s victory in the 2015 presidential election forced her and her husband out of the ornate Aso Villa.
Ever since, the former first lady has been having a running battle with the EFCC over her frozen accounts and seized property. She has been tasting the cold side of powerlessness. The attention she used to get unsolicited has disappeared. The number of her friends and hangers-on has also dwindled.
As proof of the transient nature of power, her last birthday celebration was reportedly devoid of the usual fanfare. But for her unenviable condition and deepening controversies, she would have been celebrated to high heavens on that occasion.
It will be recalled that while she was in power, her birthdays was always celebrated with fanfare, coupled with tons of advertorials in the media.
Sadly, her birthday celebration on October 25 was unusually low-key, as only a handful of her so-called friends remembered the day.
In fact, Society Watch gathered that she could count on her fingers the number of friends who called to congratulate her on the day.
“None of those who used to swarm around her like bees to nectar deemed it fit to drop at least a word for her in any of the media, if only to show her that they are still with her, even in her travails and tribulations,” our source revealled.