Ovation Magazine boss, Dele Momodu has revealed that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara was almost buried alive in his childhood after it was observed that he stopped breathing. Momodu who made the disclosure in Dogara's Biograpphy "A Reed Made Flint" said Dogara suffered several health challenges in his childhood and stressed that at one point his neighbours called on his father to bury him.
He said Dogara's father objected, wondering why he should bury such a "promising son"
“Such was the frailty of the boy’s health that most people would even say it to Saratu’s hearing that she was nurturing a boy doomed to die in infancy. They had their reason. Dogara was very sickly as a child. Despite its immense healthy atmosphere, the weather of Gwarangah and this scion of the Ganawuris were seemingly at eternal loggerheads. The health challenge worsened when Dogara was five years old. Dogara himself could not pin-point what was really wrong.
“I cannot express it. But I wasn’t just a normal child health-wise. I knew something was drastically wrong. I sometimes had some kind of attacks and in most cases I would faint. I can’t say what was wrong most of those days until I was taken to Vom Christian Hospital near Jos. Since I was operated on, many years after that, I was never sick again.
“Sometimes in the morning, he would be very healthy, buoyant and full of life. But by noon, his condition would suddenly make a volte-face and you would never believe it was the child that earlier effervesced with life.
“Wherever she was, even when in the church or outside, people would call her, alerting her, yet again, to her son’s swooning spell. During one of those spells, Dogara actually stopped breathing!” he added
