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About 5000 guests, including 18 state governors, have overrun Abuja for a lavish thanksgiving party thrown for Nigeria�s First Lady, Patience Jonathan, at a cost of N500 million. Although she had previously denied being in hospital in Germany, Mrs. Jonathan opened up today at a special service at the Aso Rock Chapel, stunning worshippers with the admission her medical condition had been very serious. �I actually died,� Premium Times quoted her as testifying. �I passed out for more than a week. My intestine and tummy were opened.� She said her doctors had actually given up hope, although she did not specify her diagnosis. �It was God himself in His infinite mercy that said I will return to Nigeria. God woke me up after seven days.�