{"id":237191,"date":"2012-12-08T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/12\/my-brother-died-of-cardiac-arrest-president-jonathan\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T20:18:00","slug":"my-brother-died-of-cardiac-arrest-president-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/08\/my-brother-died-of-cardiac-arrest-president-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"My brother died of cardiac arrest \u2013 President Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Samuel Oyadongha<\/p>\n

President Goodluck Jonathan, Saturday, said his junior brother, Chief Meni Innocent Jonathan, died of cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

The late Jonathan who, until his death, was the chairman of Otuoke chiefs council, was laid to rest, Saturday, at his Otuoke home town in Ogbia council area of Bayelsa State after a solemn funeral service at St. Stephen\u2019s Anglican Church.<\/p>\n

In an emotional laden voice, President Jonathan, clad in a black shirt, who described the death of Meni\u00a0 as very painful, said he died of cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

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President Goodluck Jonathan (right), his wife, Dame Patience, the
mother of the President, Madam Eunice, Bayelsa State
Governor, Hon.Dickson and his wife, Rachael during a commendation
church service held in honour of Late Chief Meni Jonathan at Saint Stephen\u2019s Anglican Church, Otuoke. Photo: Lucky Francis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The president spoke at the church service. According to him, his brother lived a good life, though he was still a young person at his death, his death is particularly too painful to bear.<\/p>\n

His words, \u201cI always know that people will surely die. I always believe that people will live to an age where they make their names. Some persons die before they are born, there are a lot of still births. Some others die before they grow up to an age where people recognized them. He (brother) had\u00a0 his two sons fairly grown up; that, at least, will be with us. The circumstances of the death sometimes worries me. What worries me is the he died so suddenly.<\/p>\n

\u201dThis was a young man I came home on a Friday, he came to my house, nobody carried him, he moved down just from his house\u00a0 across the road. We discussed\u00a0 he was a bit frail.I said follow us so that he could do medical check up.<\/p>\n

\u201dHe drove himself down to Yenagoa to board the chopper to Abuja. He got to Abuja that Saturday and was admitted in hospital. The following Monday, his breathing changed. I said, \u2018let us make arrangement to get him out to let him get treatment outside\u2019. So an arrangement was being made. Unfortunately \u00a0the following he had cardiac arrest and inflamed heart at the State House Clinic.<\/p>\n

\u201dWe were making arrangement to move him to National Hospital. It is a very sad thing. He had\u00a0 been covering the home front for us. He has a very humble person. He was a reliable and trustworthy person you could ask to handle things for you. He is dead, there is nothing we can do. I must thank all of you who have come to join\u00a0 the Jonathan family to give us this respect. In some traditions, I\u2019m supposed not to be in church. It is tradition that you don\u2019t bury your younger ones.<\/p>\n

Luckily for this community, we don\u2019t have too many of these cultural and traditional things. It is quite sad, it pulled the whole Nigerians to the community to bury my younger brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Present at the church service were Mrs. Eunice Jonathan, mother of the president; Dame Patience Jonathan; Speaker of\u00a0 the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal; his Deputy, Emeka Ihediora; Governor Seriake Dickson\u00a0 of Bayelsa State and his wife. Also in attendance were\u00a0 Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan; (Delta); Matin Elechi (Ebonyi), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom); Theodore Orji\u00a0 (Abia); among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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