The final burial rites for Mrs. Charity Fyneface Oba, mother of Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, have become the biggest issue in the corridors of power at federal and state levels. Next Thursday, all roads will lead to the First Lady’s ancestral home in Okrika, Rivers State, where the burial will take place.
To make the event truly presidential, a confidant of the First Lady, Nyesom Wike, has instituted five different planning committees to ensure a smooth ceremony. Already, many of the people that matter in the nation’s political arena and business community are falling heads over heels to be part of the event. Wike, the supervising Minister of Education, is the supervising head of the committees, which include those on Mobilisation, Transport, Medical, Accommodation and Publicity, which are headed by PDP top guns in Rivers State.
Wike himself has been jetting in and out of Abuja and Okrika to make sure that nothing goes wrong with the event the way ASUU strike has paralysed the education sector. The late Mrs. Oba was involved in an auto crash along Elele Road in Port Harcourt on July 22 as she was travelling from her base to Yenogoa, Bayelsa State.
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