Abia Dgov. Emetu urges the Church to sustain prayers
Abia State Deputy Governor Engr Ikechukwu Emetu has called for the sustenance of the partnership between the Church and the state government, urging the Church not to relent in prayers for the present administration.
Engr Emetu said that the prayers were necessary to enable the government to excel in effecting a new dawn of progressive change in the state.
Speaking while identifying with the family of Mr and Mrs Collins Eze on the dedication and thanksgiving Service of their daughter, little Miss Chinedu Favour Collins at St Peter’s Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (PCN) Abiriba Street , Umuahia, Engr. Emetu expressed optimism that with the fervent prayers, both the government and the people would surmount the challenges of bad governance, Dr Alex Otti’s government met on inception.
Represented by his Chief Press Secretary, Sir Chukwudi Eke Mba described children as precious gifts that can only be obtained through the mercies and grace of God and that parents are mere caretakers of the gifts.
He prayed that God would continue to sustain the precious gifts He has given to the Collins to enable them to grow and become veritable instruments not just to their family, but state, and society at large.
Engr Emetu further congratulated the parents of the baby on the safe arrival of their bundles of joy, urging them to endeavour to train up their children in line with God’s injunctions and prayed God to endow them with financial blessings to cater for the needs of their children.
In his remarks, the member representing Ohafia South State Constituency, Hon Mba Kalu Nwoke expressed happiness in identifying with the Collins Eze’s on the dedication and thanksgiving of their daughter and prayed God to give them the resources to train her.
Responding on behalf of his wife, Mr Eze, who is a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC), said they were overwhelmed with joy and would continue to be grateful to God for His Mercies in blessing them with a beautiful baby.
Mr. Eze appreciated the Deputy Governor and others for coming to share in their joyful celebration as well urged those looking onto God for the fruit of the womb to exercise patience and have faith that God would visit them at the appropriate time.
Earlier in his sermon, the Priest in charge of St Peter’s Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Rt. Rev. Dr. Chinedu Okoroafor pointed out that God created man to have dominance over all He created as His plan was for man to reign over the creation and rule over the earth.
He identified three factors that prevented man from achieving this God’s purpose arising from household enemy, near success syndrome, and expatiating further, Rev Okoroafor said that household enemy most occasion doesn’t mean ones siblings but those who knew you well and that when one dies suddenly close to his success, means that God’s purpose on the person have not been actualised.
The clergy also said that when one engages in wastefulness, such an individual can not dominate and rule his environment in line with God purpose.
