[NEWS] Presidency Replaces Aides Around First Lady In German Hospital

culled from TheWill
The Presidency has replaced security
aides around first lady Patience
Jonathan in order to keep her affairs
private at the Wiesbaden, Germany
hospital, Horst Schmidt Kliniken,
following speculations about her health,
TheWill can report.
A security source with knowledge of the
development told TheWill that the
Presidency’s action followed reports of
her medical sojourn to the hospital,
believed to have been leaked by
someone amongst the team of six aides
dispatched to Germany ahead of her
arrival.
The aides were withdrawn and replaced
with a new team of six security aides from
the SSS, our source said, adding that when
the replacement team, made up of more
experienced and trusted aides arrived
Germany, they were stripped of other
phones and directed to stay off the social
media and the internet.
The Presidency has kept mum since reports
of the first lady’s treatment in the German
hospital hit the media. There have been
speculations surrounding her ailment and
what exactly she is being treated for.
President Goodluck Jonathan has not visited
his wife since her hospitalization about three
weeks ago. A top level official in the
Botswana government, one of the two
countries the President had visited on a 3-
day working tour told THEWILL source that
the President abruptly cancelled a
scheduled engagement this evening and
made straight for the airport heightening
fears that the first lady’s condition may have
deteriorated.
THEWILL has not been able to
independently confirm where the President
is headed.
President Jonathan was scheduled to leave
Gaborone, the Botswana capital on
Wednesday.
Several calls to the President’s spokesman,
Dr. Reuben Abati with a 3-hour period to
get a reaction were unsuccessful as his
phones were switched off.
The President was accompanied on the trip
by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State
and Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State,
Senator Sahabi Alhaji Yau; Honourable
Jones C. Oyereri; the minister of mines and
steel development, Alhaji Musa Mohammed
Sada; the minister of culture and tourism,
Chief Edem Duke; and the minister of state
for foreign affairs, Dr. Nurudeen
Mohammed.