Nigeria’s Presidency has announced the death of Mrs. Nancy Jonathan-Olei, President Goodluck Jonathan’s younger sister.
A statement bt Reuben Abati ,Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) Sunday evening said “President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan announces with deep sorrow, the passing away of his beloved junior sister, Mrs. Nancy Jonathan-Olei.”
“Mrs. Jonathan-Olei passed away earlier today at a hospital in Yenagoa after a brief illness. She was 52 years old”, the presidential spokesman said.
“Burial arrangements will be announced later by the family” Abati said.
The president had in 2012 lost his younger brother.Chief Meni Innocent Jonathan,the president’s junior reportedly died of cardiac arrest.