FIRST LADY CONTRACTED FOOD POISON IN DUBAI- PRESIDENCY A source in the presidency says first lady Dame Patience Jonathan contracted the rumoured food poison in Dubai when she went to the country late August. The source told The Nation reporter that efforts to make the first lady to respond to normal by presidency medical team proved abortive before they were advised to fly her to German specialist hospital. Saharareporters had on Sunday blew the lid open when the online news portal said Patience Jonathan is hospitalised in Germany over food poisoning. Dame Jonathan according to investigations was airlifted by a presidential jet and not in an air ambulance as earlier reported. Presidency spokepersons on Monday denied that first lady was hospitalised, they said she only went for a 'moment's' rest.