"I Died" - Nigeria's First Lady

                                        

Nigeria's First Lady, Patience Jonathan, said she died and woke up after seven days during her (strange) illness which saw her away from the country for three months.

She made this startling revelation at a thanksgiving service held at the State House Chapel in Abuja, in which she also mentioned that while her travails lasted, people here in the country started selling off her properties, thinking she was already dead.

According to her, she underwent seven surgery operations within one month and the doctors had given up hope on her survival.

She said: “I remember when Chief  Obasanjo was the President of the country, I was close to his late wife, Stella. We worshiped together in this chapel. It was a painful moment for me that time when she (Stella) died and her corpse was brought here.

“That was how my corpse would have been brought here. It was not an easy experience for me. I actually died, I passed out for more than a week. My intestine and tummy were opened.

“I am not Lazarus but my experience was similar to his. My doctors said all hope was lost.

“A black doctor in London who is with us in this service was flown in when the situation became critical. It was God himself in His infinite mercy that said I will return to Nigeria. God woke me up after seven days.

“I know that some people somehow leaked the information that I was dead.  They are people that I trust and rely on; to them, I was dead and I would never return to the country alive. Some of them even sold my things off.

“I won’t say everything here. It is the Lord’s doing that I returned alive. When God says yes, nobody can say no.

“People are always afraid of operation (surgery) but in my own case, while my travail lasted, I was begging for it (surgery) after the third operation because I was going to the theatre everyday.

“It was God who saw me through. I did eight or nine operations within one month. It was not an easy one.

“The day I came back, I said God I have nothing to say, I offer myself to you. I will be doing things that will touch the lives of the less privileged.

“God gave me second chance because I reached there. He knew I have not completed the assignments He gave me, that was why I was sent back”, she said.

In his remarks, President Goodluck Jonathan said when he took over the mantle of leadership, some people had predicted that either he or his wife would die in office.

. . . As it turned out, neither of hem died. . . Just his brother.

He said: “I thank God for keeping the life of my wife. If anything had happened to her there would have been many stories and the fake prophets would have had their predictions fulfilled,” he remarked.

The reception had in attendance, former heads of state, governors, members of the National Assembly, ministers and other dignitaries.

We are happy that the First Lady did not die. We are happy she's alive and well, and that another tragedy of death did not emanate from the First Family's home.

But we are sad that the First Lady did not give details of her strange ailment which landed her in the hospital in the first place.

And did she actually die? She said she died, and in the same breath said she "passed out". Maybe she meant to say she went into a coma.

Could she be exaggerating?

Where is the expert medical opinion who can say if she was medically dead, or comatose?

Anyway, whether it was death, coma, or a faint, fact remains that Nigeria's First Lady had a close shave with death. . .

. . . And we're happy she's still with us.

Story Source: Vanguard