Abuja based popular hotelier and serial entrepreneur, Architect Chief Christian Asaga Nwali, has expressed happiness and fulfilment with the action of Deeper Life Bible Church (DLBC), Ameka, Ikwo, Ebonyi State, to dedicate a church building his organization built and donated to them.

Speaking with New National Star on Tuesday, Chief Christian Asaga Nwali, who was recently conferred with the chieftaincy title of the “Ide Jiulo 1 of Izzi Nnodo Kingdom” by the entire Izzi Nnodo community in Ebonyi State, said he built the church for the community in the honour of his mother, who had kept faith with the church till date, despite her children and other people leaving for different churches.

He said he was equally convinced to undertake the church building project for God as he was brought up from the church, alongside his siblings and that the doctrine of the church shaped them to become what they are today as they embraced holy Christian living.

He said: “Deeper life Bible Church, Ameka, Ikwo, on Sunday, dedicated the church building we built and donated to them by the grace of God. We were brought up from this church. The doctrine shaped us. The experience we had all through primary and secondary school stages still remain so impeccable. One of the experiences that I can’t forget was how I kept feeling that Christ would come the next minute. This was actually the driving force to holy Christian living. I pray for the later rain to be greater than the former. Amen!

“However, my beloved mum kept faith with the church till date, even when my siblings and I had left for other churches. Our mum still attends DLBC with some of her numerous Ogboos. In her honour and to the greater glory of God Almighty, I built the church building for God.

“I am happy that the services have been moved from the primary school class room to this church building to the glory of God Almighty and courtesy of our efforts towards community development by the Grace of God. God bless the worshipers and God bless you all.”

On his part, the officiating minister, Pastor Benedict Efor, expressed happiness that Chief Nwali has helped to assuage and ameliorate the sufferings and inconveniences of the worshippers as the building of the church led their moving their worship from the primary school classroom to the church building worshipping.

“We are grateful to Chief Christian Asaga Nwali for this show of love and dedication to the work of God. The construction of the church means a lot to us as we have now moved from the classroom to the church building. We pray for God to continue blessing him with good health, long life and prosperity,” he said.

Recall that Nwali has been gaining recognition and appreciation by his people is as a result of his philanthropic activities and humanitarian interventions, including employing over 500 Nigerians, scholarship programs, marriage sponsorship of his employees, distributing cars to his employees at Cirenes Hotels in Abakaliki, Exclusive Serene Hotels and Suites in Enugu and in Wuye, Abuja, among others.

A former member of the National Assembly, Hon. Dr. Uche Nwole, last week testified at Zion Prayer Movement Outreach (ZPMOM) how his Christian ministry and business witnessed a positive turnaround after he joined the Evangelist Ebuka Obi-led prayer ministry.

Hon. Nwole, who represented Mbaitoli/Ikeduru Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives from 1999 to 2003, told the audience at Zion City at Okota, Lagos, that he flew in from the United Kingdom to testify to what God did in his life through Evangelist Ebuka.

He said when he noticed all his family in the UK were addicted to the ministry online, he started praying and challenged God with an offering and asked that if Evangelist Ebuka was a true prophet, God should make him mention his name in his prophecies. This became a reality on February 9 this year when Ebuka prophesied about him during his online Open Heavens programme.

He stated that the Evangelist also mentioned something only a few people who knew him were aware of – a family deity which he was supposed to serve but because he rejected it and founded a church, his business and ministry became crippled.
Hon. Nwole confirmed to the congregation, however, that after the prophet mentioned his case and prayed for him, things started turning around for good.

“This convinced me that the prophet is real and I came down to Nigeria to step my foot on Zion ground and confirm to everyone that Evangelist Ebuka is a rare gift to the world”.

BY MYKE UZENDU, ABUJA

After 19 days of the conduct of the governorship election in Imo State, candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the election, Sen. Athan Achononu has raised alarm that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is frustrating every attempt to inspect the Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System (B-VAS) used during the conduct of the exercise.

Recall that Presidential Candidate of the same party Peter Obi on Monday lamented that several months after the Supreme Court delivered judgement on the Presidential election, he is yet to get a Certified True Copy (CTC) after he requested and made payments for it.

Sen. Achononu in a Press Conference at his residence, in Maitama – Abuja wondered why the electoral empire is foot dragging in allowing him access to the materials knowing fully well that he has limited times to tender his evidence before the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal.

The former lawmaker who claimed that he won the election, said that the delay in releasing the BVAS for inspection my be part of the plans by the ruling party to force him to file his petitions out of time and get his matter struck out on technical grounds.

He said, “What is happening right now is that we went to the Tribunal, got an order for us to be allowed to inspect the BVAS. INEC has refused to let us inspect the BVAS up till now. Lawyers and experts were hired at a very huge cost per day 30 million, they are not allowing us to inspect it despite court order”.

The governorship candidate called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu whom he described a democratic who went through the trenches to ensure that democracy returns to the country, to intervene and compelled INEC to do the right thing. He said that Tinubu’s antecedent as one who fought for democracy is the only thing sustaining his desire to seek justice at the tribunal.

“What gives me confidence is that Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu was on the street for June 12, he made us believe that he was a democrat fighting for justice, freedom of choice and equal opportunity.

“Well he is in the same party with Sen. Hope Uzodimma but this country shouldn’t be about party, it should be about quality of persons, what do you represent. I was in the senate with the first Lady, Sen. Tinubu, I know the kind of person she is, a person of integrity, how can they allow this kind of thing to happen under their watch.” He queried.

Sen. Achononu said that the INEC Chairman during the stakeholders meeting pledged that election result collations will start from the ward to the local government before the state but lamented that collation never took place in any ward. He accused INEC of colluding with the ruling party in the state to announced results that were not signed even when party agents were raising objections as to the credibility of those results.

“When we came to stakeholders meeting, we told the INEC chairman Prof. Mahmoud that there are certain things he needs to put in place for a smooth election. One is the removal of the REC. Secondly is that collation must take place at the ward level, local government level before the state level. We insisted that the result sheets must be signed by three officers, a national commissioner, the REC and each EO will sign that of his local government so that there will be no manipulation of the result sheets and he agreed.

“But surprisingly on the election day, there was no collation at the ward level even in some local government. They moved everything to the state and in those places where there were insecurity and no election, results were collated, there were cluster voting in Orsu” Achononu lamented.

The LP candidate however expresses slight hope that he will get justice in the judiciary, saying that all hope is not lost.

He said, “I still have belief and faith in the survival of this country. I still claim that there are some men of integrity within the judiciary. These are men who hold the power of life and death over us. These are men who are supposed to live above reproach. There must be one or two of them, I hope I come across one of them in my case. I still believe in this country no matter what anybody says. Something will happen. Yes, I have come across a lot of men of integrity in this country, very few of them. I want to think that this will be the first test case of the judiciary, let’s see what happens” he said with an air of matchless confidence.