VICE-PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the last elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has urged churches in Nigeria to remember Nigeria in their prayers, especially now that the country, like all other countries of the world, is being ravaged by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Obi spoke on Tuesday, through the Chairman of his Coronavirus Palliatives Committee and Former Chief of Staff and Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning in Anambra State, Professor Chinyere Stella Okunna, during the continued sharing of his palliative items to various churches in Nigeria.
Okunna told the benefitting churches that the intention of Mr. Peter Obi is for the items to reach the least privileged among the congregation.
The Vice Chairman of the Committee, Chief Joe-Martin Uzodike explained that the palliatives are divided into 5 components, namely: reaching the poorest through the Church; provision of hospital items to selected hospitals, out of which 31 hospitals have benefited across the country; reaching the poorest in all the towns in Anambra through the PDP party structure. He said that those hospitals that received material items would also benefit from monetary intervention very soon. He said the final component would be the post-COVID-19 initiatives.
The benefiting Churches were united in the pledge of prayers for His Excellency and the country, which they said they had been doing even before the request.
The churches that benefited in yesterday’s palliatives are: Seed of David, Redeemed Christian Church, Awka; Christ Holy Church International, Awka; Rhema Chapel, Umunya; St. Andrews’s Methodist Church, Onitsha; Messianic Faith Assembly Int’l, Nnewi.
The Association of People living with Sickle Cell Disorder also benefited from Obi’s COVID-19 intervention. Their leader, Aisha Edwards Maduagwu said Obi’s intervention did not come to them as a surprise, going by his infinite readiness to always contribute to the amelioration of human difficulties.
Representing the sentiments of the benefiting churches, the head of the Salvation Army, Envoy Levi Muonagor said that when the churches in the state recalled Obi’s performance and his disposition to do good, that nothing he did by way of expressing the love he had for God and his children surprised anyone. He described him as a “rare Nigerian and God’s precious gift to humanity.” He assured that the donated items would reach those Obi had in mind – the poorest in the society.
Other members of the Coronavirus Palliative Committee are Dr. Patrick Obi, Dr. Chike Collins Ohamobi and Mr. Valentine Obienyem.
