by Rachel Ogbu

The First Lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan has returned home from a three-day trip to Geneva to mourn her late mother, Charity Oba.

Patience was said to have arrived into the warm embrace of her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja yesterday at exactly 9.40 p.m. after a trip to Geneva to receive an award as the Online Child Protection Champion from the International Telecommunication Union.

Patience’s foster mother, fondly called Mama Sisi had died in a car crash in Port Harcourt on Monday. Reports say the deceased , was on her way to Bayelsa State when the accident happened and that her corpse has been deposited in the mortuary.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the former military Head of State, Retired Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, Anthony Anenih, joined President Jonathan,  his mother, Eunice, and the wife of Bayelsa State governor to receive his wife.

[READ: Report: Patience Jonathan’s mother dies in a car crash]

The ministers of transport, aviation, power, science and technology and culture and tourism were also present.

Sources say Minister of Power, Chinedu Nebo led the gathering in a prayer session for the repose of the deceased’s soul, while Anenih gave the closing remarks.

More dignitaries were said to have arrived the Presidential villa later on including Anambra State Governor Peter Obi.