Right from the first day, Patience Jonathan has shown us that she won’t ever back down from a fight. Her recent legal comeback against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is only the latest in her series of confrontational outbursts.

Who comes out to claim they own money that is the subject of an ongoing money laundering case?

This gave us a flashback to all the times she’s shown herself to be muscle tough when it comes to handling the ‘haters’- who (or what)ever they may be.

• Remember when she started her ‘tenure’ as first lady with a court battle?

Not long after Goodluck Jonathan took over Aso Villa as President, Patience Jonathan went straight for the woman we had all come to fear as the most powerful woman in Nigerian politics, Turai, the late President Umaru Yar’Adua’s wife.

The tussle was reportedly over a land that had been set aside for a pet project Turai had initiated while her husband was alive.

Soon after the Jonathans assumed office, the FCT minister announced that the land had been reclaimed in the interest of the public. We later found out the land was allocated for another project to be run by the new First Lady’s office.

There was a long drawn battle; even got the courts involved. Turai Yar’Adua won the battle but that’s when we were introduced to Patience Jonathan, the one that won’t back down.

• Listen Amaechi!

This is one battle the Dame took on that we won’t be forgetting in a hurry.

Mama Peace attended a seminar during a two day visit to Rivers State where her host, Rotimi Amaechi- who was the then Rivers State governor- was showing off projects he had planned for schools in Okrika.

There and then, Mama Peace snatched the microphone to air her views on how she thought the governor was going about the whole thing the wrong way. She schooled the Amaechi, to the amazement of the audience, on how to plead instead with the people (of Okrika) as opposed to saying “must”.

Years later in 2013, she went on to clarify the issue, what had become a bitter fight between her and Amaechi, saying, “Amaechi is my son; I cannot fight him, and I cannot kill him …power is not forever. This seat is vanity; others sat here and left so one-day I’ll also leave, and we will meet at home; so why should I fight him?”

• Even the Niger-Delta militants couldn’t dare her without a sharp retort

When the Niger-Delta militants issued warnings to Mama Peace not to accompany her husband- the then President- on the campaign trail, the Dame probably gave a long and loud hiss because the statement she issued, through her media assistant days later, stated clearly that she not avoid visiting any part of Nigeria because of provocative utterances by some people she referred to as “faceless groups”. “We will not descend so low to be joining issues with faceless groups.”

• Chibok Saga

No one will forget in a hurry how she took the centre stage at a time when Nigeria was still battling the shock of the school girls who were abducted from Chibok community Secondary School.

The world was busy noting the event as another minus from the then administration but the Dame appeared on our computers, TV screens, mobile devices and tablets crying and demanding for the girls’ whereabouts as well as literally blaming on the Principal and the Borno State government.

• Patience Vs Dickson

This is similar to the Amaechi episode but this one started with her resigning from her position as a permanent secretary in Bayelsa State.

It is not clear what exactly happened; if it was a voluntary decision made by the former first lady or if governor Dickson made it happen. What was clear was the way their relationship turned sour from then on.

There were even rumours that the Dame was going to support APC’s Timipre Sylva when she asked her supporters not to re-elect Governor Seriake Dickson.

Finally reports surfaced that ‘Mama’ had made ‘peace’ with governor Dickson and all was well again.

• She has never shied away from direct attacks on the President Buhari

Some of her best affronts came from her campaign addresses. Who will ever forget when she called the current President brain dead?

Another time she took to a campaign podium and practically called out President Buhari saying,

“Remember that they were in that Aso Rock before. All the things that they keep there, they did not take it. Now they want to go back there. Ask them a question, what do you forget there?

Not stopping there, she made a direct reference to General Buhari’s old age, “Won’t you leave Aso Rock for the new generation.”

• Shunning the Police Commander

When former Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba warned Nigerians against staying back at polling stations after voting in a bid to protect their votes, the Dame wasn’t having it.

In a speech she gave just days after, she warned the people of Enugu to follow their votes till the end after casting them on the 28th of March. “Do not leave the arena until the counting ends.”

• Patience, the educated first lady

For all her time in Aso Villa, we made fun of her grammatical errors and her hilarious outbursts  but the Dame never allowed that to push her into hiding. While we continued to make fun of her, she went round the country campaigning on behalf of her husband last year.

During her Ondo stop, she tasked the women of Ondo to vote Goodluck again because he was going to support women empowerment unlike the opposition, who she had accused of building prisons instead of schools.

To buttress her point, she asked, “As I am standing before you, if I am not educated, will they choose me?”

• Shaming Satan

Last May, the wife of the former President revealed that she had to go from hospital to hospital during the campaign period.

She made allusions as to how the Obasanjos did not leave the Villa a complete family at the end of their tenure while being thankful that she and her family left alive.

“I called my pastor to continue praying for me. They want me to be a sacrifice, but I will never be.”

• Addressing the Buhari-led anti-corruption campaign

In Akwa Ibom where she was addressing the women folk back in March, she threw enough shade to cover President Buhari’s entire anti-corruption campaign team in a rain storm when she said:

“Akwa Ibom people, judge o. Because we are not here for lies. We are not here for propaganda. Because their own number one campaign is corruption. As if them are not corrupt. They are not corrupt. What do you call corruption? He has a house. You, are you living outside? Are you living in the forest? It’s corruption.”

This latest episode looks a perfectly staged response to every one who had been asking about her.

We hadn’t heard nor seen much from her since after the elections but we are about to have our fill if her reputation is anything to go by.