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.”
Agnes Aineah is a Kenyan journalist with a background in digital and newspaper reporting. She holds a Master of Arts in Digital Journalism from the Aga Khan University, Graduate School of Media and Communications and a Bachelor's Degree in Linguistics, Media and Communications from Kenya's Moi University. Agnes currently serves as a journalist for ACI Africa.