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Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan yesterday cut short her trip and flew back from Geneva following the tragic death of her mother in a car crash on Monday in Port Harcourt.
Credible sources confirmed that the First Lady and her entourage, who were in Geneva on official assignment had to return back to the country following the accident that claimed the life of her mother and another child who was in her company.
The news of the death of the woman popularly known as her foster mother, Mrs. Iwarioba (Sisi), was said to have been broken to her in Geneva by her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan through the telephone yesterday.
Mrs. Iwarioba was reported to have died yesterday in a road crash at Elele in Rivers State.
She was on her way to neighbouring Bayelsa State. Her body was deposited at the Kpaima Mortuary on Elechi Beach, Mile One, Diobu, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, around 6 pm by Evans Bipi, accompanied by many policemen.
Meanwhile Police confirmed her death yesterday
Confirming the incident to journalists in Port Harcourt yesterday, the command Public Relations Officer, Angela Agabe, said that the late Madam Charity Oba was travelling in the company of her driver, Stanley Enyinnaya and two others in a Toyota Salon car with registration number ABU 153 AE from Port Harcourt to Bayelsa when the Vehicle suddenly lost control after a tyre pulled out and veered into the bush where it hit a tree.
The police image maker said that the driver and the other passenger who sustained injuries were being treated at the Save the Life Hospital located at the GRA Port Harcourt.
Reacting to the death, a human rights activist in the Niger Delta, Mr. Ken Asuete, described the death as untimely and unfortunate as he condoles the First Lady and her family, praying God to give them the fortitude to bear the loss.
Ken Asuete, however, decried the condition of the East-West Road, saying that prominent people in the region have consistently cried out on the condition of the road. “The East-West Road has been an issue over the years. The rivers state governor has cried out over that road several times.
“That road is a project on which the Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Elder Orubebe, has woefully failed the nation.
Asuete then called on the federal government to wake up to its responsibility and ensure speedy construction of the road in order to save more untimely deaths of the innocent citizens of the country plying the road.
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