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First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan made history yesterday - the government of Bayelsa State appointed her permanent secretary.
This is the first time the wife of a President has been so appointed into a position reserved mainly for senior civil servants.
But Dame Jonathan is not the only appointee of the Seriake Dickson administration, there are 17 others, according to a statement by Head of Civil Service Mrs Gloria Izonfo.
President Jonathan was Deputy Governor and Governor of Bayelsa although his was hails from Okirika in Rivers State.
The other appointees are Mr.J.E. Oye, Samson Ayibeboa, Mrs. Antonia Koroye, Ziwari Billie, Buruboyefa John, Mrs Dikuro Ayebameh, Serge Williams, Olu Kuruom, G.I.Izein, Mrs.Philomena Alodie, Dr. Omietimi Kojo, Ese Izonebi, Ohougha Maythias, James Clinton, Mrs. Linnet Tebepah, Moses Teibowei, Dr. A. Sanayi and Vivian Odiwei.
Following the announcement on the state radio, it became the talk of town in Yenagoa, the state capital.
Government sources said her appointment was informed by her long service transferred from the Rivers State Civil Service to the Bayelsa Civil Service.
Justifying the appointment of Mrs Jonathan, the statement said: “By the Constitutional power conferred on the state Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson, in section 203 sub section 2c, Dame Patience Jonathan and Seventeen others were elevated to the position of Permanent Secretary in the State Civil Service”.
Dame Jonathan obtained the National Certificate of Education (NCE) in Mathematics/ Biology in 1989 from the Rivers State College of Education and a Bachelor of Education in Biology and Psychology from the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
She worked in Teaching, Banking and as a Sports Administrator in the State Civil-Service. She was First Lady of Bayelsa State.
Mr. Mackson Iworiso, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Dickson on Media and Public Affairs, described the appointment as routine action in the Civil Service.
culled from Nation Newspaper
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