Patience: I sneaked out for surgery during campaign

Mrs Jonathan was speaking at a thanksgiving and farewell service organised for her and her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan, at the Aso Rock Villa Chapel.She said at the peak of her husband’s re-election campaigns in January, “the devil struck” and she was, in pains, rushed to a German hospital where doctors told her that she […]

Mrs Jonathan was speaking at a thanksgiving and farewell service organised for her and her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan, at the Aso Rock Villa Chapel.
She said at the peak of her husband’s re-election campaigns in January, “the devil struck” and she was, in pains, rushed to a German hospital where doctors told her that she must undergo a major operation immediately.
Mrs Jonathan said no sooner had she returned to Nigeria for the campaigns than doctors told her again that she had to go for another “big” operation in a bigger hospital in Germany.
The first lady said it was then she called her pastor to continue praying for her as “they want to use me as sacrifice. I thank God for keeping me alive today. God is so wonderful. Just two years ago, I went through operations upon operations. Within one month, I passed through 12 operations. It’s wonderful. Some people said she is dead, but God resurrected me.”
She also said that in January this year she was rushed to a German hospital and the doctors told her she would go for a major operation.
“What,  again? The campaign was still going on and I wondered how we were going to explain to Nigerians.
“You know even when you go for a check-up, they’ll be writing on papers saying all sorts of things. I said I and my family have to hand over. My husband will continue with his campaign crowd until the last day. That was how I went in for the first major operation in January ending.
“And by God’s grace, I went for the operation and came out and it was from that operation that I went to the campaign ground.
“And they (doctors) told me, mama, there is another bigger operation you’ve to go in for. This one would not be in this hospital. It’s too small for this type of operation. You’ve to go to a bigger hospital and I said ah ah! I’ll go, I’ve faith in God and that my God will see me through. He has brought me out for a purpose. I called my pastor to continue praying for me. They want me to be a sacrifice, but I will never be.
“Then, do you know I went to the bigger hospital? I booked for the operation and I was asked to go for the campaign. They gave me a new date. I had paid for everything remaining just to enter the theatre and the thing occurred to the hospital. Let’s check her again. By then, my husband had lost the election. I had packed out of Villa. We’re about going. Behold! I went to four hospitals again and the thing (her illness) vanished. My doctors were surprised they didn’t think that could happen.
“Those that know the former president and his wife, her corpse was carried out of this place,” she said.
“We thank God that I and my husband are going alive. Thank God today we’re parting with life, not with death. Our doors are open. I really thank God for keeping me alive. He is a miraculous God. God is so wonderful in my life because people prophesied that one of us will not go back. But God has made it possible. Two of us are going healthy,” the first lady said.
Mrs Jonathan, who urged her followers to take her husband’s exit from power in good faith,  described power as temporary.