Ibeku community gathers as leader celebrates wife’s survival

It was a moment of joy and thanksgiving last Sunday as the high and mighty in Ibeku land joined their President General, Princewill Ukaegbu in Ossah Ibeku to celebrate his wife, Elizabeth Machiadighikwe over her survival from a life-threatening sickness.

The event which started with a church service at the All Saint Methodist Church,  Eziama Ossah in Umuahia North LGA saw also the convergence of Ibeku youths,  past and present officers of Ibeku Egwu Asaa Development, IEADA Association  and its women wing.

Others included past and present political associates, traditional rulers from Ibeku land and beyond, in-laws and friends even from beyond the state.

Addressing the congregation during the occasion, the Methodist Bishop of Umuahia East, Rt. Rev. Godfrey Agupusi, said “Man is not God. All we need is the hand of God.”

The Bishop said that since Lady Elizabeth was healed, “whatever is in God’s hands is divinely sacred. No power and principalities can snatch it from Him.”

Speaking with newsmen later, he expressed his excitement that God has honoured them by bringing her back to life after she was confirmed dead by “science” and enjoined all to acknowledge God’s omnipotency and surrender to Him for divine security.

According to Hon. Grace Uche, God had delivered her from death and given her life and thanked God for the grace HE had shown to their daughter, while the Publisher of the Rising Sun Newspaper, Joshua Ogbonna, “it is the Lord’s doing as she went to the land of the dead and came back to rejoin the living.”

An elder statesman, Paul Nmeregini described the survival of Elizabeth as “the hand of God upon the family” and advised them to hold unto God, as  a former Chairman of Ohafia LGA council, Hon Uche Ogboso said that it was God that gave her life and has therefore shown mercy to the family.

In his speech while thanking God, the chef celebrant, Sir Princewill Ukaegbu, told the congregation that God delivered his wife from the clutches of death using doctors and men of God. He therefore thanked all for their prayers, especially those who came to stand by them at the hospital.

According to him, he believed in God before, but believes in Him more now, stating, “The best thing is that the devil has been defeated.”

Though tears did not allow the wife, Elizabeth Machiadighikwe Ukaegbu to express her feelings recalled that all the time, her husband had slept in his car at the hospital to look over her, praying God to bless him.

Speaking with newsmen later, Elizabeth Machiadighikwe Ukaegbu thanked God for His mercies, pleading with Him to continue with His good work in her family and that of others that need His help.