“God is at work”: Catholic Nun Says General Elections to Mark Nigeria’s New Birth

The other sign, she says, is the persistence of the Catholic Church in praying for the redemption of the country, and its elections.

“Since 1993, the Catholic Church has been praying a minimum once a week at Sunday Masses all over the country the ‘Prayer for Nigeria in Distress’. We add to this the many other prayers currently being said, and the ‘Prayer for Free, Fair and Peaceful Elections in Nigeria’, still by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN),” the Catholic Professor says.

She continues, “Faith moves us to believe that God is clearly answering these prayers now in our days through the events of the presidential election.”

In Nigeria, Sr. Okure says, God is also intervening “to end evil and oppressive regimes, systems, and their structures in favor of the people, especially the downtrodden and the oppressed.”

Where there is oppression, as is the case in Nigeria, God works outside the system to sanitize it, the Catholic Nun says, and explains, “Amos, the first of the writing prophets was a sycamore dresser from the south sent to proclaim God’s word to the northern kingdom that had constituted themselves in place of God. We see this in particular in his confrontation with the priest Amaziah at the shrine of Shiloh.”

She says that in Nigeria, God is intervening through Peter Obi’s LP, and “not through the age-old APC (All Progressives Congress) or the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party), (to cite the usual two leading parties).”

According to the professor who has been certified by the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education, clear signs exist, indicating that God seeks to intervene in the situation of Nigeria through LP.

The party, she says, emerged to prominence from nowhere, and suddenly became “a major threat” to the reigning parties APC and PDP, which she says have been described as “birds of the same feather” in the way in which “their members move freely from one party to the other.”

Sr. Okure notes that in LP, a presidential candidate resigned to give his place to Peter Obi, and posits, “Has this ever happened in Nigeria: that one candidate would cede to another without being bribed?”

Additionally, LP has the family, in what the Catholic Professor describes as the core of society, as its logo. 

She says, “Their logo is not the broom whereby the people in the party sweep all the wealth of the nation into their pockets and the pockets of their stooges and leave the masses in abject poverty, exposed to insecurity and banditry without visibly lifting a finger to stop it. Nor the umbrella where the party protects itself from the economic sun and rain and leaves the people, the masses, to the mercy of the inclement weather of poverty and insecurity.”

The mane of the party, “Labour”, Sr. Okure says, also means the people and the masses have labor, and work, as their ethos. 

“They are ready to work hard, to labor to make Nigeria become the country of their dream, of God’s dream and desire for everybody, father, mother, and child, of every Nigerian,” she says. 

Sr. Okure adds, “God’s first employment given to human beings was to work, to till the soil. The Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, has said over and over again that Nigeria needs to get back to the land to begin to feed its citizens and export to other countries. Agriculture is one of its major means of revamping the nation’s economy.”

According to the SHCJ member, the fact that people of different faith affiliations are campaigning for the success of LP, which she says has also attracted the support of young people in Nigeria “is a clear sign that God is in our midst and that we do want to stay with, and stand by God, so as to make Nigeria stand firm.”

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“No amount of force, politicking, sabotage, and intrigue can defeat God’s clear work in and for Nigeria,” Sr. Okure says.

Meanwhile, the Catholic Nun has called on the people of God in Africa’s most populous nation to be on guard against plans of the West to sabotage the growth of the West African country.

In her February 18 reflection shared with ACI Africa, the Nigerian Catholic Nun says that the United States of America, Europe, and China, in particular, know that their game of exploiting Africa will be over if Nigeria wakes up. 

“We need to be aware of the subtle and open policies of the West (America, Europe, China in particular) to sabotage Nigeria’s rise to glory. Because if Nigeria ever rises to its God-given glory, their game of exploitation will be over,” Sr. Okure says.

She continues, “Once Nigeria rises and becomes a formidable united nation in Africa, the centuries of exploitation of the continent will be over. There are videos upon videos to show that the West will not take this lying down. Because if that happens and succeeds, Nigeria will become the first world and Africa too, while the West will become the third world. By God’s doing, they will not succeed.”

“The Nigerian revolution, seen as God’s work, does not aim at impoverishing any other nation, black or white,’ she says, and adds, “God wants the welfare of all the people that God has created out of love.”

The Catholic Professor of Scripture cautions the people of God in Nigeria to be on the lookout for people from the West, who are coming as “wolves in sheep’s clothing” to sabotage Nigeria’s new birth.

“We need to be watchful of foreign efforts to sabotage the birth of the nation, using unpatriotic or ignorant Nigerians to do so. Coming like wolves in sheep’s clothing. Ready to kill any African leader whom they cannot manipulate,” she says, and adds, “As God lives, they will not succeed this time.”