Aisha urge Nigerians to immortalize good people through living right

Nov. 23, 2017 

By Ijendu Iheaka

 

The wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari has urged Nigerians to immortalize good people who have died by emulating their virtues and living peaceful lives like they did.

She said that it was only by emulating their life styles that humanity can properly immortalize great people who have left legacies of a good life with them.

Aisha made the call at Ohanze-Ishiahia in Obingwa LGA on Thursday during the burial ceremony of the mother of the First Lady of Abia State, Mrs Nkechi Ikpeazu, late Jemimah Nwakanma.

She praised late Mrs Jemimah Nwakanma, as a virtuous woman who served God and mankind with sacrifices to help humanity through the nursing profession adding that her life was worth emulating.

Aisha urged the family, Abia State and Nigeria to be comforted by the late midwife’s good motherhood example by which she trained children that have contributed greatly to national development.

Aisha was represented at the event by the Deputy National Women Leader of All Pople Congress (APC), Dr Mrs Tina Abike.

In his speech, the Abia state Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu said that her late mother-in-law was an epitome of courage, pillar of strength, compassionate care-giver and a gift to humanity.

He noted that the woman midwife the birth of over 3000 children and cared for them adding that if good testimonies could resurrect the dead, her mother-in-law would not have ressurected.

He regretted that mankind could do nothing about death but pray that they live well to meet them at the end of life in heaven adding that from her life style, she was hopeful of heaven at last

Earlier in his sermon titled “Adam, where are you”, Dr Bassey Udoh, President, Eastern Nigerian Union Conference, Seventh-Day Adventist Church said that man was accountable to God who created him.

He said that the life of the late woman showed she was conscious of who she was and where she was going hnce she served God and humanity sacrificially.

Udoh said the one question a man must answer was, where are you going to when you die adding that two eternities awaited humans, heaven or hell.

He therefore urged men to come to Jesus Christ who died and resurrected to save them and give them hope of life after death so that they could overcome the terrors of death and eternal hell.

The chief celebrant and former Deputy Governor of Abia state, Chief Acho Nwakanma thanked all who helped to make the occasion successful and prayed for their safety while going home.  

Some of the dignitaries at the event included the wives of governor of Akwa Ibom state, Mrs Martha Emmanuel, Anambra State, Mrs Eberechukwu Obiano, Ebonyi state, Mrs Rachael Umahi, 

Others are wives of governors of Enugu state, Mrs Monica Ugwuanyi, Ogun state, Mrs Olufunsho Amosun, Lagos state, Mrs Bolanle Ambode and Imo state, Mrs Nkechi Okorocha.

Also present were Senators Enyinnaya Abaribe, Theodore Orji and Mao Ohuabunwa among others.