Posted on: 09:49 Wed, 25 Nov 2015



The General Overseer, The Redeemed
Christian Church of God, Pastor
Enoch Adeboye, has said he has no
doubt in his mind that the late
matriarch of the Awolowo family,
Chief Hannah Idowu Dideolu
Awolowo, is resting with the Lord.

He said this on Tuesday while
holding a private prayer session with
the family at their Ikenne residence.

The cleric, who arrived the Awolowo
home at 1pm, headed straight to the
Efunyela Hall, where the prayer
session was held with family
members, relations, friends and
other well wishers in attendance.

He said, “By the special grace of God
and because of my interaction with
Mama, I have no doubt at all that she
is in heaven now.”

Adeboye, who shared his experience
with the audience on how he was
privileged to confirm that Mama was
resting in heaven, explained that he
had a personal encounter with her
two weeks before her death.

He said, “Before Mama passed on,
she was making a request and I was
contacted. I won’t go into details
about the request but I was abroad
and when I came back I saw her and
we had a little discussion before she
passed away. As a result of that, I
have no doubt that Mama is resting
with the Lord.”

Adeboye used the occasion to appeal
to the congregation who gathered
inside the hall to also work to make
heaven, stressing that nobody knew
when death would come.

He added, “You have to consider
your own case because all of us can’t
say when it will be our turn. Would
you end up resting with the Lord or
you end up on the other side? The
choice is yours.”

He later prayed to God to make the
family members stronger and united
even after the demise of their
parents.

He said, “We want it said that after
the transition of Papa and Mama,
the Awolowo family became stronger
and bigger. We don’t want a
situation where things will now
begin to diminish. We want to pray
for the legacy they are leaving
behind that the Almighty God will
keep the legacy and move the
children to higher heights.”

Meanwhile, the Ogun State
governorship candidate of the Unity
Party of Nigeria, in the last general
elections, Prince Rotimi Paseda, has
described the late HID, her late
husband, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, as
exceptional leaders who stood for the
cause of the masses.

He said this at Ikenne on Tuesday
during a farewell programme
organised in her honour.

Paseda said until politicians learnt to
put the welfare of the masses first by
providing free education, free health
care, employment and integrated
rural development for the people, the
country would not experience the
desired development.

Source: PunchNg