I became a millionaire in my 20’s and I was doing very well. I just thank God for counting me worthy to be in this ministry. Everybody comes to this world with something, it is in this world that destinies are derailed for many reasons and I believe God has raised our ministry to raise these people.
As a single lady, before I came to Nigeria, I was doing business in London but one day, God spoke to me to come back home. I was surprised and even my friends were like what else do I want…why going to Nigeria? But that voice was really strong and I decided to obey. I came home and I started my business and was also doing well. And then God spoke to me that every Thursday, I must go to an orphanage and take care of the children there. I would close by 12 noon every Thursday and buy some gift items for the children at an orphanage in Victoria Island.
Whenever the children see me, they will shout mummy, mummy and I will sit with them, clean some of them, feed them, play with them till evening and then I would go home. That was what I was already doing before I got married to a man whose heart is larger than this world.
We decided that we were going to help people and that was how we started. Today, we have a full fledged orphanage where over 20 children are taken care of.
Does that mean there is so much money in the Church?
That impression that a lot of people have is not true.
Man of passion
If it is just one naira that we have and there is someone who needs that same money, we are ready to give it out. I think it is the willing heart that God wants.
The church is expanding the horizon beyond the yearly empowerment programme….
When Daddy gave his life to Christ and decided to follow His path…though he came from an affluent home….he knew what God wanted him to do. After God saved and delivered him from his past lifestyle, he went to seminary, his family rejected him, he went out with nothing, he would buy bread, cut from it to eat and use the remaining as a pillow.
We are people-oriented and so many things have been said about him in particular that are totally false because he is a man of passion. When he believes in something, he throws himself 100 per cent into it.
He would say what is true not for anything else but a lot of people misconstrue his type.
Some of the things he said as CAN president and people abused him then are the same things people are talking about today.
When he went to address United States Congress, and he said they should declare Boko Haram a terrorist organisation, a lot of people were shouting. He said if it is for him to lose his life for his nation, he was ready. I cried that he should please…that I was still young but he would tell me that God would take care of me.
As CAN president, I remember I went to Maiduguri on a chartered plane with lots of gift items for the displaced persons there. That is what we will continue to do.
Do you regret your contribution to the cause of Christianity then?
Never! Even Jesus Christ experienced humiliation from His people. At some point, he was telling them about the type of death he was going to die, but they could not take it. He was healing the sick and casting out demons, they said He was doing it with the spirit of Beelzebub. He told us that we will also go through the same.
The church runs some businesses including the Microfinance, group of schools and others and their management falls on your lap. How do you cope?
It is God’s grace! Talking about starting a bank, it has always been my passion. They are all service-oriented. Whenever I find myself having to run from one company to another, I just smile because I know it’s all about what God has asked me to do. This is my own part of fulfilling the vision.
My father at one point was always telling me that I did not know how to do anything small. I did not understand what he was saying but I just know that somehow, God gives me the strength, enablement and has given me a wonderful husband who believes in God. He is my tonic, he motivates me to do more, to go the extra mile.
You can see my voice is almost gone because I have been having series of crusades and this morning again, I am back starting A day with the Lord. The moment I entered the church and saw the large crowd, I said God please take over and my voice that I have been trying to treat for days popped open and I started the ministration and God took over. It is all about God’s grace.
At Sunday thanksgiving service, I heard you gave out some items for all first timers during the month-long Overturn programme…..
When I went to the markets and saw what these people were wearing, I could not believe it. So, I ordered a very expensive material called Single, and I said if I can wear it, then these people can wear it and honestly, they were really happy when we started giving it out to both old and young and even the young lads. We ensured that no one left without something.
A lot of persons see your husband from a distance and may believe everything they hear or read about him. What kind of person is the man described as the ‘Lion of Africa’?
They do not know him. This man that I married cannot hurt a fly! If someone steps on him, he will even tell you sorry. He has a large heart to accommodate lots of people. People have done a lot of negative things to him but they do not bother him. If it is possible for him to remove his eyes just for some other person to see, he would do that without thinking.
This is a man, at the age of four, he could not speak until he was five when God gave him a voice. Do you know his last name, Oritsejafor means God has given you power to speak?
Spiritual father
He is a true man of God. I see God in him, through his lifestyle, his behaviour, through the way he is ready to sacrifice his life for the country.
When there was a serious challenge in Warri against churches, most churches were closing down but Word of Life was standing because it is everybody’s church.
We have people trooping in from everywhere in the world, just to hear the word from this man of God. It was incredible.
He went to the creeks, to the Ijaws, he chartered a big boat, filled it with food items and all sorts of things. To God be the glory when they saw him, they received him and he was one of the persons instrumental to the peace we are enjoying today in Warri.
People were urging him not go to the creeks because they feared they would kill him, yet, he went. He started meeting with different groups in strange places that nobody dared to enter and that is how we started experiencing peace today.
He stood up and championed peace in this land. He is a man of peace. I see him as my spiritual father. Besides God, he is my life and I love him.
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