The first lady, Dame Patience
Jonathan, this Friday, handed over her
role as the President of the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM),
to Jadiya Hamdi Mohamed, first lady of Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
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| Patience and Jadiya |
The ceremony which took place at the
Office of the First Lady Federal Republic of Nigeria, in Abuja, was the
8th AFLPM Summit of the mission which comprises of wives of Presidents of all
African countries.
The tenure of Patience Jonathan started when she was elected as the mission’s
President at its seventh summit held in Abuja in July 2012.
Our sources say the tenure is
supposed to have expired in July 2015 when a new president would have been
elected but Mrs. Jonathan summoned an
emergency summit of the mission on Friday, where she handed over to her
successor.
The action of the president’s wife had been criticized as a ploy to prevent the wife of the
President-elect, Hajiha Aisha Buhari, from replacing her as President of the
African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM), an accusation the Dame refuted.
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