Jonathan’s wife’s ‘mum’ dies in Rivers road crash

The mother of the wife of President
Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience, Mrs.
Iwarioba, popularly called Sisi, died
yesterday in a road crash. The accident
occurred at Elele in Rivers State. She was
on her way to neighbouring Bayelsa State.
The accident happened around 4 pm,
source said, adding that Mrs Iwarioba
body was moved to Kpaima Mortuary on
Elechi Beach, Mile One, Diobu, Port
Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, around
6 pm, by the self-acclaimed "Speaker" of
Rivers House of Assembly, Evans Bipi,
accompanied by many policemen.
Bipi, who represents Ogu/Bolo
Constituency, is a former aide to the First
Lady, who attended his marriage on June
15 at the St. Cyprian's Anglican Church,
Hospital Road, Port Harcourt, shortly after
which she buried her grandfather at
Okrika, during her 10-day visit to Rivers
State.
Dame Patience, an indigene of Okrika, the
headquarters of Okrika Local Government
Area in Rivers State, in Geneva,
Switzerland, according to sources who said
she was immediately contacted.
Mrs. Jonathan expressed shock and she
felt very bad over her mother's death,
according to a family source, who pleaded
not to be named.
Details of the accident were sketchy last
night, but a security man at the gate of
the Kpaima Mortuary, who declined to
give his name, said many armed
policemen accompanied a body to the
private facility, presuming that the
deceased might be a prominent person.
The Rivers Sector Commander of the
Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC),
Dr. Kayode Olagunju, and the Rivers
police spokesperson, Mrs. Angela Agabe,
could not confirm the incident, stressing
that they were yet to get the details from
their officers and men at the scene of the
accident.
A source said last night that the late Mrs
Iwarioba was Mrs Jonathan's stepmother,
but this could not be immediately
confirmed.