President Jonathan’s Second Wife, Mrs. Lott Jonathan ? Internet awash with Tales of Polygamy in Aso Rock

 LOTT’S DAUGHTER: PRESIDENT JONATHAN’S SECOND WIFE
Sunday, May 29th 2011 Style, a publication of This Day Newspapers carried a story ‘Meet the Jonathans, Nigeria’s First Family. On the cover of the magazine was a picture of the President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife Patience flanked by two of their children, a girl and a boy. It should have been the magazine’s finest moment except that the portrait being painted by This Day was incomplete. A search through the internet for President Jonathan’s children also brought up the picture of the two lovely children who appeared on the inaugural This Day Style cover of May 29th. Perhaps, This Day was unaware of all the facts when it published these details.Continue

This information which most Nigerians outside Bayelsa and Rivers have come to accept about the size of the first family is erroneous. President Goodluck Jonathan has four children and not two. He has two boys who do not appear in the picture. They are known to be living abroad with their mother, a daughter of Chief F.D Lott who is a former attorney general of Bayelsa State. Perhaps, the Nigerian public had been largely unaware of the existence of this part of the president’s family because of the failure of Niger Delta based newspapers and journals in capturing national attention due to their restricted area of circulation. National politics takes a back seat to state concerns in the region. Most people coming into Abuja from Port Harcourt however become aware soon enough that not much is known about the president except what the Lagos media have succeeded in capturing. Perhaps, the same might apply to the Vice President Namadi Sambo. A visit to Kaduna will obviously reveal much more than is known in Abuja. There is the need for Nigerians to know as much as possible of those who they put in power.

It would be impossible in the United States or even in Europe for citizens of those countries to be unaware of the number of children belonging to their president. It is wrong to leave Nigerians in such ignorance.

The marriage of Goodluck Jonathan and Patience Ibifaka (nee Oba) Jonathan did not produce any biological children. The children who appeared in the Style cover picture are adopted children. As a deputy governor Goodluck Jonathan had made the alliance of a young lady, a law graduate of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, one of the daughters of Chief Lott. The liaison between them eventually resulted in the birth of two sons. These are the only biological sons of President Goodluck Jonathan. The two boys did not appear in the family portrait painted by This day Style on the day of the inauguration of President Jonathan. Investigations show that the boys had lived with their mother in Yenagoa for a while before they moved abroad for security reasons.

Unknown to most Nigerians, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has another wife, aside from the First Lady, Dame Patience Ibifaka (née Oba). The existence of his second wife, Mrs. Lott Jonathan, popularly called Mrs. Lott J, is one major aspect of GEJ’s family life, which is consciously being kept out of the awareness of most Nigerians. Lott J is not just President Jonathan’s second wife, she is also the mother of his children-two boys.

A Law graduate of Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), Lott J is the daughter of Chief F.D. Lott, renowned lawyer and former Attorney General of Bayelsa State. She is the cousin of Dezieni Allison-Madueke, the controversy-inclined Minister of Petroleum, and the two are as close as blood sisters can be. The ELITES gathered that Lott J’s father is a member of the Governing Council of Niger Delta University, Bayelsa.

Sources disclosed to The ELITES that Lott J has been married to the president even before he made his foray into politics. It was gathered that after Jonathan became the Deputy-Governor of Bayelsa State, Lott J tried to muscle her way into his heart, by using her two sons as a bargaining chips to tie his hand. However, she met a resistance in a fiery Patience, who foiled all her attempts. By the time Jonathan became the governor of Bayelsa State, he decided to relocate his second wife and two sons to the United States of America. Shortly after Jonathan became president, Lott J came back to Nigeria with her two sons, and made Abuja her place of abode. Sources disclosed to The ELITES that Lott J lives in one of the most highbrow areas in Maitama Street. Her husband is said to pay her a visit every Sunday.

Described as a very easy-going and self-effacing lady, Lott J owns and runs a private school, Aduvie Montessori International. It is situated off Blantyre Street in Maitama and it is rated as one of the best in FCT Abuja.

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