A Ray of Hope for Nigeria-It is lit in Edo State. 

Sam Aweda 

“…….. In those days, it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of Nigeria, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is from Edo State, saying, we will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you” (adapted from Zach 8:23). 

Praying people have been asking if God is listening to the cry of the suffering people of Nigeria as to when their ordeal in the hands of mindless leaders will come to an end. 

Is Adams Oshiomhole the answer? I want to believe so. I see a ray of hope, a ray of light around the tunnel. I see it in Adams Oshiomhole, the newly crowned Governor of Edo State. 

A song of king David in Psalms 30:5 reads” Weeping may go on all night, but joy comes in the morning” 

But Oshiomhole is a Governor of only one state among 36 others and he is not the President of the

Country, what gives you such a high hope? 

Oshiomhole is the lead to good things to befall the Nation very soon. He has become a hope and encouragement for others in the grass root who have been groaning under the yoke of the oppressive, self- serving Feudal Lords who have been converting people’s treasury into personal use, who have been at the centre stage since independence and not ready to quit. 

Anyone from the grass root can now take the queue behind Governor Oshiomhole (as he prefers to be addressed) and aspire to take their destiny in their hands and run for elective offices for only one purpose, which is “good governance, to remove poverty from the populace” It is now possible. Governor Oshiomhole has demonstrated it and henceforth it will be a lot easier. 

Oshiomhole has allowed his head on which coconut is broken and Edo State will soon become the envy of all the States of the Federation, which well meaning people from other states can copy and seize the governance of their different states from the thieves who have all these years laid hold of the peoples’ treasury for their selfish and aggrandized use. 

And God willing one of them will eventually occupy Aso Rock and Nigeria and the coming generations of Nigerians will be free for ever and never shall Nigerians be servitudes to other Nations. Never shall Nigerians besiege foreign embassies with caps in their hands with plea to be their slaves. Amen and Amen. 

I am now experienced a bit of the way God works. When He starts His work of deliverance, it is like wild fire. He sets the fire sporadically and in strategic places and all will be raging in different directions until it eventually quenches and destroys in total the fiery darts and works of the wicked, the enemy.  

It started with the unthinkable election of a black man, Barack Obama into the most powerful office in the world on Tuesday November 04 and it was quickly followed exactly a week later, Tuesday 11 by the Election Tribunal Court of Appeal, giving the mandate of Edo people, which they have robbed them of for 17 months to them. 

I am positive that Governor Adams Oshiomhole will deliver. He himself has said it all. Listen to him in the press conference he had with the African Independent Television (AIT) the very evening of his election victory: 

i. “I am not a product of god-fatherism, I am elected by the people and I can look up to anyone and say: He! You can’t do that” 

ii. “When I look at the number of people who defy the curfew, about 500,000 that trooped out as soon as the verdict was read, tears rolled down my eyes and I told myself, I have a duty to deliver, to justify the confidence and trust they have put in me” 

iii “ I am a product of poverty and except the Government in power was good when I was growing, I will not be what I am today” I might not have written this exactly as he said it. 

iv. “I have before now, been in the opposition, now I am given the mandate to rule” 

v. “ LGA chairmen collect money only to share it among party leaders. All that now stops” Certainly the Governor is talking from an inside knowledge and he cannot be doubted. 

vi. “The public will be told, how much a Local Government Area (LGA) Chairman is allocated and we will ask him what he has done with the money” 

vii. “I will appoint an Engineer as Commissioner in the Ministry of works and he will have no excuse for non-performance. A Health Professional will man the Ministry of Health while an Educationist will be Commissioner to the Ministry of Education” 

Mr. Governor, may God in His mercy help you to be able to convert your tough talk into reality and I plead with all Nigerians, home and abroad who has been looking forward to the deliverance of Nigeria from poverty to join in prayers to uphold Oshiomhole to live to his own expectation and words. 

Governor Oshiomhole spoke just about the same time Speaker Dimeji received a guest, German President. Bankole said to the amazement of the world that only a State in the Delta region receives allocation in the same amount, which a whole North East consisting of 6 states receives and queries anything on the ground in the Delta Region State that justifies the allocation. 

The Governor elect, having been at the head of the Labour Union, no doubt is versed with what is expected of the Government and I have no doubt in my mind that now that he is placed in the right position to put his wishes into reality will do just exactly that. 

My fear however is how he will be able to deliver his lofty objectives in the midst of those who all their lives have lived from the People’s treasury. I still trust in the ability and capability of Mr. Governor to put them into the irrelevant places they belong. 

In the press conference, the Governor elect had made known his stands against looting of the treasury. By this he has certainly stepped on the toes of those who have no other means of sustenance other than from the Edo State treasury. I hope Mr. Governor needs not be reminded that they are looters as well as killers. In this wise I should like to plead with Mr. Governor elect in serious terms not to ignore security. We cannot afford another February 13. 

Probably if General Murtala Mohammed had not ignored security, Nigeria might have been a leader of Nations today. He cannot compare his previous job as opposition leader with the new. 

Sam Aweda

President & Snr. Pastor, Jesus for the World Revival Mission.

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# 1 A Ray of Hope for Nigeria-It is lit in Edo State. Sam Aweda “……..In those days, it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of Nigeria, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is from Edo State, saying, we will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you”(adapted from Zach 8:23). Praying people have been asking if God is listening to the cry of the suffering people of Nigeria as to when their ordeal in the hands of mindless leaders will come to an end. Is Adams Oshiomhole the answer? I want to believe so. I see a ray of hope, a ray of light around the tunnel. I see it in Adams Oshiomhole, the newly crowned Governor of Edo State. A song of king David in Psalms 30:5 reads” Weeping may go on all night, but joy comes in the morning” ...Read the full article. Posted by Robot| 16.11.2008 11:57