PATIENCE JONATHAN: GREED, CORRUPTION AND UNBRIDLED AMBITION

http://thewillnigeria.com/opinion/19109.html



FIRST LADY, DAME PATIENCE JONATHAN

“Why spend five hundred million naira on a thanksgiving party? Why allocate 4 billion naira to a white elephant project in Abuja. Why lobby, and then accept the Permanent Secretary position in the Bayelsa State civil service when you knew you were not qualified for such an appointment? Why engage in a public quarrel with your predecessor over a public land deal in Abuja? Why lie to the nation about your medical condition and secret treatments overseas. Why the bombastic statements, and the supercilious attitude? What’s the immoderations that have come to define you?” The questions are almost endless. But this has been the ways of Patience Faka -- the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The African continent has had many terrible First Ladies; and many with a cathedral full of iniquities and samples of what is wrong with the continent. Mrs. Jonathan is not quite there, yet. But she is gaining grounds on many of her predecessors and contemporaries in the continent. And especially in the case of Nigeria – from Flora Azikiwe to Victoria Aguyi-Ironsi, Victoria Gowon, and Ajoke Mohammed down to Esther Oluremi Obasanjo, and Safinatu Buhari, Maryam Babangida, Margaret Shonekan, Fati Abubakar, Stella Obasanjo, and to her immediate predecessor, Turai Yar’Adua -- she has no equals in terms of excesses and negativities. And she has been at it for a while.

Mrs. Patience Jonathan has been the source of amusement and jest for many Nigerians. As the wife of the then deputy governor, who later became the substantive governor of Bayelsa State, she was the target of snide and pejorative remarks amongst the ordinary people. She was so unremarkable that many influential personalities within the state didn’t pay her a speck of attention. Instead, much of the attention was on Mrs. Margaret Alamieyeseigha who, according to those in the know, had the biggest and most fragile egos in the state.

But all those who didn’t pay Mrs. Jonathan the smidgeon of attention lived to regret it. Before they knew it, and before they saw the sun rose, she had become the numero uno of Bayelsa State -- with her own budgetary allocations. She was so powerful even her husband was stupefied. But he shouldn’t have been since the traces of unbridled ambition were already there long before they landed in the corridor of power. She was such a handful that her husband, on many occasions, came close to axing their marriage.

The thing about Mrs. Jonathan is that in spite of her paper credentials, she is not well-read. Intellectualism is not one of her fine points. But deficiency in these areas has not stopped her from getting her way. After all these years -- and not minding the insinuations and allegations and crudeness -- Patience Faka Jonathan is exactly where she wanted to be: Head of her household and near the top of the political and economic ladder. And because she lacks many enviable traits, she appears non-threatening. It was this deceptively plain and placid nature that caused many to let their guards down.

In the end, hate her or loathe her, one cannot but be amazed at her raw ambition and her ability to safely navigate shark infested waters. Insofar as her 2012 appointment as a Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa State is concerned, well, ambition is one thing; unbridled and intemperate ambition is another. Petty vices are one thing; but wholesale corruption is another. And while greed -- under certain settings may be good-- unmitigated, careless and moral-damaging geed is quite another. It is not just evil, it is destructive. But in all these, one wonders where her husband’s mind is. What was he thinking?

Many Nigerians believe that he has no control over her. After all, this is a wife and a woman whose many actions have been scandalous, and which have brought private ridicule to his person and his office. In spite of the brouhaha and denunciation and rumors that followed the “Permanent Secretary Scandal,” the President has remained quiet. His wife and others are tugging at his Achilles heels; yet, he goes about his business unperturbed. When you look at the larger picture, this is about greed and corruption and unbridled ambition. This is about a woman who has given great thought to life and living conditions after 2015. Knowing there is no chance in hell, or in heaven, of a second term for her failing husband and his failing presidency, she schemed to secure herself a future with a life-long retirement package.

The Nigerian government houses and feeds her and pays for her various domestic and foreign travels. She uses public funds to support her family at home and abroad. And for more than a decade, she’s been compensated, legally and illegally by Bayelsa State and the federal government. It is as if all the money she and her husband are alleged to have pilfered, and continues to snip, is not enough. We might as well compensate the First Daughter, the First Son, and the First mother-in-law. After all, they too serve the nation in one capacity or another. It may also be a good idea to consider the First Ladies in all the 36 states of the federation. And we might just as well compensate the mistresses and concubines of public official since they too “served” these officials, and by extension, the country.

Recently, and by her account, she came close to dying in her hospital bed in Germany. From one human being to another, I felt sorry for her. But beyond that, it is tough to sympathize with anyone who has brought so much pain and misery to others and to the country. Millions of Nigerians have no access to medical care in Nigeria. Millions have no access to quality education and to various other basic human needs. Her husband’s presidency, and other presidencies before theirs, didn’t find it humane and necessary to provide what other sane societies provide their people. When they fall sick, off to Dubai and London and German they go.

When Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, and Goodluck Jonathan take ill, they consult their medical doctors in America and elsewhere. These men ruled Nigeria for a combined twenty-two years at least. Yet – yet – none found it necessary to build first class hospitals and medical centers all across the country. When they die, I hope they get buried overseas and not in Nigeria. I have no doubt that Obasanjo and Jonathan’s coffin, along with Babangida’s burial materials would be made abroad. Perhaps all three should consider importing the soil, the dust, and the worms that will surround them after their death.

I have an on-going investigation into the 4 million Euro house Patience Jonathan bought in Baden Baden, Germany earlier this year. It is a developing story. Stay tuned!


I will be exposing a lot in the coming months. I was at U.S States Department yesterday in Washington, D.C where I heard from a reliable source about how Jonathan Administration paid $1 million to Reverend Jessie Jackson to attend a political engagement in Nigeria.


Stay tuned for what lies ahead!

subscribing .... the new nightmare of our in-house lapdogs. can't wait to see the sleazy side of the first family.

sincerenigerian: I have an on-going investigation into the 4 million Euro house Patience Jonathan bought in Baden Baden, Germany earlier this year. It is a developing story. Stay tuned!


I will be exposing a lot in the coming months. I was at U.S States Department yesterday in Washington, D.C where I heard from a reliable source about how Jonathan Administration paid $1 million to Reverend Jessie Jackson to attend a political engagement in Nigeria.


Stay tuned for what lies ahead!

WONDERMENT SHALL NEVER END.

guy u dy try,.subscribing too...

@Sincere,

First off, I commend your efforts to coalesce minds around important issues affecting our polity, these last few days.

Please try to provide verifiable references for the articles you post, where possible, as this extra effort will help those interested in further research on the subject.

@Op, you are the man!! Since you exploded wit ur unique moniker, all the PDP lapdogs have all been stupefieds and in terror have all scampered away . I know by now they will be wondering what hit them. Pls keep giving them nightmares

Sincere Naija... you done hit the nail on the head.

She has the atypical, naija 'long throat' mentality. I was in Abuja in Feb and heard directly from a man who had his lands and property confiscated due to political gra-gra that Patience sells 5mins time with her husband for $10,000 USD. The huy had no money then and could not afford to pay. Even if you Boko Haram sef, you can get audience with him as long as your USD is stacked.

Oya, sincere... I am now your London operative. PM me so we can begin global surveillance. Over.

Now we have a Sincere Nigerian. Keep it rolling, i dey soak d info like a bowl of garri ijebu endowed with epa

please am forced to ask is this the same sincer Nigerian i know all is this another one

sincerenigerian:

http://thewillnigeria.com/opinion/19109.html

Thanks man.

Kai !!!! How Ironic.


It appears Sincerenigerian is determined to be the nemesis of Sincere9gerian by giving him high blood pressure. Oga sincerenigerian, E jo, biko, don allah, abeg take it easy. At this rate you are going at, you will cause our dear Sincere9gerian to be admitted to hospital very soon.

Hmmmm...cnt bt jt imagine why and how ppl sing praises of dis administration. If only for Dame, dis administration is a failure nt to point out oda atrocities.

Still observing sha!

Stay tuned!

waaattt. oh ma gwad. END NEVER SHALL WONDER.

Patience has always been a thief

She was alleged to have stolen loads of money even when Retardeen was in Bayelsa govt

following this like a fly all the way

Almost confused..but now the diff is clear
Sincere9erian......Sincerenigerian

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Almost confused..but now the diff is clear
Sincere9erian......
Sincerenigerian....

@sincere, nice piece that I really soaked! Mod front page please

D avaricioud nature of the first lady is not peculiar to her but it is an exclusive gene of the occupants of aso rock occupants.

D avaricious nature of the first lady is not peculiar to her but it is an exclusive gene of the occupants of aso rock occupants.

Well,well,well.Sincerenigerian.that was an eye-opening piece as many of us would see it.but we need more solid evidence to establish this piece.i.e.pictures.2015 is another chance for us nigerians to have a national rebirth.it starts now.may GOD help us

$500 million on a thanksgiving!!!! This woman and her husband are going to bleed this country dry else, they wont be satisfied.

Patience is worse than her clueless husband.


i knew for s long time that She has a file wt d ICPC whilst she was bayelsa 2nd lady on money laundering charges.


But as it is in naija, the file may never see the light of day

Just look at how she slouch in the couch like some overfed overbloated sloth. How in the hell could a sage like OBJ have made such a terrible mistake
A family so intricately corrupt it feels as though one could actually smell, feel and see the corruption in them.

2015 would present us with yet another golden opurtunity to chart a new course for this potentially great nation.

Lets not make dsame mistake twice ladies and gentlemen.

omenka: Just look at how she slouch in the couch like some overfed overbloated sloth. How in the hell could a sage like OBJ have made such a terrible mistake
A family so intricately corrupt it feels as though one could actually smell, feel and see the corruption in them.

2015 would present us with yet another golden opurtunity to chart a new course for this potentially great nation.

Lets not make dsame mistake twice ladies and gentlemen.

If Obasanjo is a sage according to your own dictionary, then you are one of the most unfortunate Nairalanders I have ever seen!

This is not Sincerenigerian, guy I may like your criticism of the FG and GEJ, but you are an impostor.
Take up another user name and stand for what you believe.