The book, ‘A Reed Made Flint’, authored by Ovation publisher, Dele Momodu, explained how the Yakubu family fared before, during and after the birth of Dogara. The biography of Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives has revealed he was in his mother, Saratu Yakubu’s womb for 12 months as against the nine months.The book, ‘A Reed Made Flint’, authored by Ovation publisher, Dele Momodu, explained how the Yakubu family fared before, during and after the birth of Dogara.Momodu narrated: “It was a cold harmattan morning of December 26, in the year of our Lord 1967. Along the edge of a rustic but neatly paved road, in the picturesque town of Gwarangah in the then Tafawa Balewa District of old Bauchi Division of Nigeria, an elegant but modest bungalow was on the threshold of history. Saratu, the matriarch of the Yakubu Tukur Ganawuri household and veteran of five previous maternity days was on a gruelling journey to her sixth.
