First lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Sunday, said she died and woke up during the period of\u00a0 her ailment which necessitated her absence from the country for almost three months.<\/p>\n
In a thanksgiving service at the state House chapel in Abuja, the first lady said prayers offered by\u00a0 Nigerians sustained her while some people who had taken her for dead had began selling her properties.<\/p>\n
According to her, she underwent seven surgery operations within one month and the doctors had given up hope on her survival.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cI remember when Chief\u00a0 Obasanjo was the President of the country, I was close to his late wife, Stella. We worshiped together in this chapel.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a painful moment for me that time when she died and her corpse was brought here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat 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.
\n\u201cI am not Lazarus but my experience was similar to his. My doctors said all hope was lost.<\/p>\n
\u201cA 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that some people somehow leaked the information that\u00a0 I was dead.
\nThey 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t say everything here. It is the Lord\u2019s doing that I returned alive. When God says yes, nobody can say no.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was God who saw me through. I did eight or nine operations within one month. It was not an easy one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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