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Aso Villa Chaplain, Seyi Malomo, on Monday led Pastors and members of the Christian Association of Nigeria ( CAN) to offer thanksgiving service of songs and prayers to thank God for sparing Osinbajo’s life from helicopter crash that was averted in Abuja.
Speaking at the event, the Villa Chaplain, described “the incident is significant because it was not just Osinbajo’s life that was spared, the country, Nigeria and its leaders were also preserved from the calamity that would have befallen it”
Senior pastors drawn from the Redeem Christian Church of God, including leaders from the Christian Association of Nigeria(CAN), Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria(PFN) were among those who assembled to offer praises and thanksgiving to God on behalf of the Osinbajos
The chopper that conveyed Vice President to the Customs Command College, Gwagwalada, a suburb in Abuja,had develop fault mid air soon after takeoff with the Vice President and his team inside the chopper.
The chopper was later forced to doemergency landing few seconds after it took-off as it started emitting thick smoke mid air.
The development forced the Vice President to be conveyed back to the Presidential Villa, in his official vehicle.
President’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, confirmed the incident on Twitter, where he attributed the incident to technical faults
The Pastors offered prayers for preservation of leaders in the country
“We will be spending 120 hours praising God, teaching about thanksgiving, praying to God to bless Nigeria more, establish peace in Nigeria more, preserve our nation more, give us the victory that is needed.
“As we all know we are a nation that deeply loves God and a love for God that is also born out of deep appreciation because we know that God loves us too and his love for us manifest in his good works towards us,”Malomo said
Malomo however criticized Christians who daily bemoan their situation, saying they should be a praying church rather than complaining.
He used the sojourn of the Israelites from Egypt to the promised land to illustrate his point, saying rather than momour and complain, Christians should look up to God for their supplications.
“My advise to them is for them to join us, we are to be a praying church not a complaining church, many of us as Christians knows that one of the things that angered God most in the journey of the children of Israel from Egypt was their momouring and complaints.
“We know that Nigeria has left Egypt we are on our way to the promised land, even though their might be manner and wilderness experience, the red sea we shouldn’t complain but look up to God and call on him that is what we are doing,”he stated.
Tony Ailemen, Abuja
