Mrs. Jonathan said a sharp pain on her side and an examination by the doctors revealed she needed an urgent surgery, adding that with the help and understanding of her family, her condition was kept under wraps while she sneaked out of the country to Germany in January to undergo a major surgical operation.
She said she returned from Germany after the surgery and went into the re-election cam¬paign of her husband.
Mrs. Jonathan, who is the immediate past President of the African First Ladies Mis¬sion, who spoke during a farewell service organised by the Aso Rock Villa chaplain said she was billed for yet another surgery after her husband’s defeat, but last minute tests in four different hospitals in Ger-many, revealed she no longer needed surgery, attributing the news to God’s miraculous healing.
The First Lady, who began her testimony by rendering a special song “I will give God my whole life,” went down memory lane on how two years earlier she had undergone 12 surgeries and was at a point pronounced dead but God mi¬raculously brought her back to life. She said she never dreamt that she would one day become the First Lady of Nigeria, as her husband was never a politi¬cian, giving credit to Diepreye Alamieyesigha for bringing her husband into politics as deputy governor of Bayelsa State.
Mrs. Jonathan said other people might have felt bad that they were exiting from the Villa but for her family they were full of gratitude to God for sparing their lives and help¬ing them to leave the Villa in good health.
Thanking God for her hus¬band’s political journey, Mrs. Jonathan said: “ I really thank God for keeping me alive. He is a miraculous God. God is so wonderful in my life because people professed that one of us will not go back. But God has made it possible, two of us are going back healthy. I never thought in my life that I would be a First Lady. I never dreamt of being wife of a deputy gov¬ernor because my husband was not a politician. But God made it possible and God lifted us up from deputy governorship po¬sition and here we are.
“We should be grateful to God for what he has done. To me and my family, we praise God. To our followers, today it might not be too good but I want them to be grateful to God because they have fol¬lowed us for a long time from our days as deputy governor, to governor, vice president and president. You know this posi¬tion is not a life thing. There is no permanent thing, so, I want you to take it in good faith that it is the will of God and you should be praising God. God is really wonderful. That is on the political side.”
On the health crisis that re¬occurred during her husband’s re-election campaign, she said: “For me, 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 is wonderful. To some people, they said I was dead but God resurrected me. God, told me; my daughter, go back I will give you a second chance,’ ‘go and finish your work.’ And today, even if my husband lost this election I be¬lieve God has made me finish the work.
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