PATIENCE JONATHAN UNDERGOES SUGERY

The first lady's spokesman yesterday denied rumors that the President's wife was hospitalized, apparently it was a cover up story. The country's first lady is indeed in a German hospital where she is said to have undergone surgery for ruptured appendicitis. The President and those closed to him had planned to keep Mrs. Jonathan’s trip “a top secret.”

 

The Presidency had denied that the President’s wife was ill, saying that she was only resting abroad. Her spokesman, Mr. Ayo Osinlu, said the President’s wife traveled out of the country to take a “moment’s rest.”

A Presidency source said, “The President is angry that the story could still leak when a very few staff of the President and security men knew about the traveling.