The Presidency says President Goodluck
Jonathan is fit and will return to Nigeria today. Jonathan, on a trip to Britain, had, on
Wednesday, taken ill thus unable to honour a
meeting with British investors. In a statement, yesterday, the Presidency said
the president merely suffered abdominal pains
that did not require surgery. It dismissed the claim that the illness stemmed
from Jonathan’s 56th birthday bash in London,
saying there was no such bash as the president
marked the birthday quietly. The statement thanked all Nigerians for
showing concern over Jonathan’s health. “The Presidency also commends the generality
of the mainstream media whose coverage of
the President’s slight health challenge in
London was mostly factual, objective, fair-
minded and supportive”, the statement said.
It continued: “We however condemn the utterly
irresponsible, deplorable, highly unprofessional
and unethical antics of certain fringe elements
operating in the nebulous sphere of cyberspace
who persist in seizing every opportunity to
unjustifiably malign and impugn the character and integrity of the elected leader of their
country. ”It is very regrettable indeed that after, in
compliance with President Jonathan’s standing
instruction that Nigerians must never be kept in
the dark about the state of his health, the public
was duly informed that the President had
received precautionary medical attention for an unexpected indisposition in London, Sahara
Reporters and some other reckless, lawless,
impudent and unpatriotic internet-based media
chose to assault the sensibilities of all decent
Nigerians again with their entirely fictional,
malicious, hate-driven and scurrilous distortion of the facts of the President’s indisposition. ”The suggestion by Sahara Reporters that
President Jonathan took ill following a “heavy
birthday party thrown to celebrate the
President’s 56th birthday at his Presidential
suite in the Intercontinental Hotel in London” is
fictional nonsense as there was definitely no party in London to celebrate President
Jonathan’s birthday on Wednesday night. The truth is that President Jonathan observed
his 56th birthday anniversary quietly. For the
better part of the day, he was airborne, in
transit between Abuja and London. ”On arrival in London, he spent the rest of the
day in the privacy of his hotel room. It has never
been his custom to celebrate birthday
anniversaries and no exception was made this
year. No birthday party was therefore held for
the President in London and there was certainly no drinking spree as Sahara Reporters claimed”.
Jonathan is fit and will return to Nigeria today. Jonathan, on a trip to Britain, had, on
Wednesday, taken ill thus unable to honour a
meeting with British investors. In a statement, yesterday, the Presidency said
the president merely suffered abdominal pains
that did not require surgery. It dismissed the claim that the illness stemmed
from Jonathan’s 56th birthday bash in London,
saying there was no such bash as the president
marked the birthday quietly. The statement thanked all Nigerians for
showing concern over Jonathan’s health. “The Presidency also commends the generality
of the mainstream media whose coverage of
the President’s slight health challenge in
London was mostly factual, objective, fair-
minded and supportive”, the statement said.
It continued: “We however condemn the utterly
irresponsible, deplorable, highly unprofessional
and unethical antics of certain fringe elements
operating in the nebulous sphere of cyberspace
who persist in seizing every opportunity to
unjustifiably malign and impugn the character and integrity of the elected leader of their
country. ”It is very regrettable indeed that after, in
compliance with President Jonathan’s standing
instruction that Nigerians must never be kept in
the dark about the state of his health, the public
was duly informed that the President had
received precautionary medical attention for an unexpected indisposition in London, Sahara
Reporters and some other reckless, lawless,
impudent and unpatriotic internet-based media
chose to assault the sensibilities of all decent
Nigerians again with their entirely fictional,
malicious, hate-driven and scurrilous distortion of the facts of the President’s indisposition. ”The suggestion by Sahara Reporters that
President Jonathan took ill following a “heavy
birthday party thrown to celebrate the
President’s 56th birthday at his Presidential
suite in the Intercontinental Hotel in London” is
fictional nonsense as there was definitely no party in London to celebrate President
Jonathan’s birthday on Wednesday night. The truth is that President Jonathan observed
his 56th birthday anniversary quietly. For the
better part of the day, he was airborne, in
transit between Abuja and London. ”On arrival in London, he spent the rest of the
day in the privacy of his hotel room. It has never
been his custom to celebrate birthday
anniversaries and no exception was made this
year. No birthday party was therefore held for
the President in London and there was certainly no drinking spree as Sahara Reporters claimed”.
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