The 2023 Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the general election, Peter Obi has said everybody is in prison in Nigeria seeking the face of God for freedom and redemption.
Obi who said this during Easter mass held with prisoners at the Correctional Center in Onitsha, Anambra state, admonished the prisoners not to feel isolated and finished.
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Dr Yunusa Tanko who made this known in a press release made available to pointnews247 stated that,”Obi told the prisoners that from the day’s reading, Mary Magdalene who was the first to discover the resurrected Christ was once unholy but today she is reformed and privileged to discover the rising of Christ even before the Apostles.
According to Obi”What that means is that being in prison is not the end of life as they could get corrected and enjoy salvation even before the so-called free people”.
On his part,the Archbishop of Onitsha Catholic Archdiocese, His Grace Valerie Okeke who celebrated the Easter mass with about 12 other priests inside the Correctional Center,in a homily said, if Mary Magdalene could transform to be among the early beneficiaries of the Christ resurrection, even them in the Correctional Center will turn around to be great in the society and before God.
Highpoint of the Easter celebration were dancing and elation of the inmates in their various cultural groups, all shouting his praises as a friend and father of the Prisoners.
During the dancing and praises, the LP standard bearer discovered a little child of one year six months, Musochukwu Ejiofor whose mother Is serving in the prison following the N250,000 business deal gone wrong.
Obi carried the child who was also in dancing attire like the mother, celebrated with them and their cultural groups.
Most importantly is that, the LP presidential candidate has been visiting the Correctional Center in Onitsha as Governor of Anambra state from 2006 to 2014 and he has not relented.
The Archbishop identified the former Governor as one of the charity pillars keeping the Correctional center going as he announced the donation of some food items and money for the project in the center.