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How My Wife, Diezani Slipped Into Coma For Three Days – Allison Madueke
Jonathan Begged Me To Make My Wife Minister
Former chief of naval staff, Rear Admiral Alison Madueke (rtd.) has disclosed how Dr. Goodluck Jonathan begged to make his wife, Diezani, a minister at the inauguration of the Musa Yar`Adua administration in 2007.
Madueke, also a former military governor of the old Anambra and Imo States has also revealed that his wife fell into a coma for three days following the onset of the cancer that attacked her.
Madueke made the revelations in his book, ‘Riding the Storms with God on My Side’.
Speaking on how his wife became a minister, Madueke said that before the inauguration of President Umaru Yar’Adua in May, 2007 that he was approached by the then Vice-President-elect, Goodluck Jonathan, who begged him to allow his wife, who is from Bayelsa State to be appointed a minister given her illustrious career being the first and only female director of Shell.
Giving details of how his wife fell into coma, he said:
“On Sunday, July 26, 2015, I stepped into my bedroom soon after our brunch to find that my phone was ringing. It was my mother-in-law, Mrs. Beatrice Agama, who was staying with Diezani while she was undertaking treatment. She was sobbing and only managed to inform me that my wife was no longer talking.
“I was in London by 5.30am the following day, Monday, and went straight to see her. Diezani was in a coma. I called an ambulance that arrived 20 minutes later, the attendants bearing a stretcher. They had to get a wheelchair since the lift could not take the stretcher.
“In less than 10 minutes, we were at the emergency intensive care unit of the Harley Street Clinic. Her doctor, Prof. Paul Ellis, a top oncologist, was out of town and had to be recalled.
“Three days later, when Diezani finally came out of the coma, she saw me by her bedside and asked what I was doing in London. She had reacted badly to her Friday chemotherapy treatment. Thank God she pulled through that nightmarish incident and is now fully recovered.”
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