Patience Jonathan Shares Testimony At Jerry Eze’s Church After Earning PhD

Former Nigerian First Lady, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan has shared a testimony of her challenges during her PHD programme.

Patience aired her testimony on Monday during the New Season Prophetic Prayers and Declaration (NSPPD) testimony hour, an online prayer platform launched by Pastor Jerry Eze. It is a daily prayer session hosted on YouTube by Streams of Joy International Church.

She said, “We give God the glory, I have come here to thank God and to tell papa (Pastor Jerry) thank you for everything, thank you for your prayers. My children were the people who came here first, and they continued praying, ‘God touch our mama to go there, God touch our mama to go there’.

“So one day, I got up, I told my children, let’s go there. When I brought them there, they said God! Mummy, you are here. Mummy, we thank God. Since then, every Sunday I go there to praise God. Any Sunday you don’t see me here, you know that I am not in town. If I am in town, I come here to praise God and to thank God.”

She further narrated how her children also talked her into pursuing her degrees. She said at first she thought she would not make it, considering her age, but her children encouraged her, and she made the move.

“Then I started going through my educational background, I did my NCE, I did my B.Sc, I did my Master’s. When I went to pick PHD form I thought that I would not make it, I have finished my career, I have finished as First Lady, and what am I going to do with PHD, am I disturbing my life? I’m going there for nothing.

“But my children said, go there and try, if these children can make it, you can make it. Just go there and try. I went and picked the form, three years was like 40 years. I said three years is too much for me,” she explained.

The former First Lady added that she made sure she involved herself in all the activities of the programme, starting from attending the classes to doing all the tasks assigned to her by her lecturer.

She said that while other children with her in class would understand the teachings at a go, she would ask questions several times before she would understand.

Mrs Jonathan recounted how she often got angry whenever her lecturer asked her to repeat a course she did not do well, not minding that she is an old woman. According to her, the programme refreshed her brain.

“My children told me, Mummy, try, let us go to class. I would go to Porth court and stay for two weeks to one month. When we go to classes, I will sit on the bench with my children, those children that are there, they are my children and am the mama among them. I was not ashamed ooh,” she narrated.

The former First Lady further appreciated God, noting that everything that seemed impossible, God made it possible, as she finished her PHD proggramme.

“I give God the glory, and say, God, thank you. If Patience can make it, you, the younger ones, can make it. No age limit in education. You are 100 years you can make it, you are 10 years you can make it. Just determine and you will make it,” she added.

She thanked Pastor Jerry Eze and encouraged him to continue praying for the country.

“This Nigeria belongs to all of us. And we will work together and make Nigeria great, one person alone cannot make Nigeria great, it is all of us that will join hands and make Nigeria great,” she appealed.