Ebonyi State Governor, David Nweze Umahi said he anchored his faith in God to deliver him even much more in the forthcoming general election.
Governor Umahi stated this in Abakaliki on Sunday where no fewer than fifty indigent homes, groups, institutions and hospitals across the State , benefitted from proceeds emanating from the 2018 end of year thanksgiving service of Ebonyi State Government.
According to him, there is a need for the church, as the conscience of leadership, to work together with the government to deliver desired dividends to the people.
Umahi who maintained that everyman on earth has something to offer and a destiny to help, called on the rich in society to always extend hands of succor to the less privileged among them.
He urged individuals to continue to exhibit the culture of gratitude, love and peace, adding that “betrayal and ingratitude are signs of failure.”
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However, Governor Umahi described Christmas as a season of forgiveness, peace and extension of love and urged his supporters and other politicians to practice politics with decorum in order to guarantee a peaceful political environment in the state even as the 2019 general election is around the corner.
Meanwhile, the Chaplain, Government House Chapel and Senior Pastor of Christ Embassy Church, Abakaliki, Eunice Oyeyemi, underscored the imperative of thanksgiving as a component of Christian worship.
According to her, thanksgiving accelerates success, attracts divine visitation and causes God to multiply his blessings and opportunities on an individual, Government or institution while acting as a weapon to put the devil in disarray.
She further maintained that the spirit of gratitude always exhibited by Governor Umahi was responsible for all the benefits enjoyed in the State.
Highlight of the Thanksgiving service was a donation of over 10,000 tubers of yams, bags of rice and other grains; garri, livestock, toiletries and other domestic necessities too numerous to be numbered to the Abakaliki and Afikpo Prisons; Abakaliki Motherless Babies Home, Leprosy Colonies in Ngbo and Ikwo; School of Blind in Izzi Local Government Area, International Model School of Deaf and Dumb, Afikpo, among others by Ebonyi State Executive Council, the House of Assembly, the Judiciary; Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government as well as individuals to encourage them.
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