He was born in a manger, yet he was a King. His birth caused a King to lose sleep even though he was an infant. The King was so infuriated, he sent out his army to search out the baby. He tried, and tried but without success. In the end, he passed a decree to the end that every child under the age of 2 should be killed.
Here’s how that great evil was recorded in history:
“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
That quote is taken from Matthew 2:18.
The child survived the persecution, and grew up to be an itinerant preacher.
Here’s a testimonial about him:
“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”
In the course of his work, he turned water into wine to honor his mother, and make her happy.
He went about preaching the gospel of salvation.
On the Mount of Beatitudes on the Korazim plateau, he delivered a sermon that is yet to be equaled in all of history. It is called: Sermon on the Mount.
He made the blind to see.
He made the lame to walk.
He raised the dead.
He exorcised demons from the possessed.
He fed 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes.
Now, he did all of these things, and he was all of this.
Check this out.
Some people gathered together to railroad him. They sent him into a midnight trial unknown to law. They bore false witness against him.
Pontius Pilate saw through their shenanigans, and he was willing to set the man free. There was a minor technicality that he could use.
“Whom shall I release to you,” he asked, “Jesus or Barabbas?”
Hear their reply——
As we navigate the matter of Nigeria; as we interrogate all the issues regarding Edo 2024, I am compelled to piggyback to the Scriptures, and to history.
Would it not be nice for each and everyone of us to be able to write our own story from birth to death?
Or, so you think.
You would be “Very dead wrong.”
Literally.
You could never write your story better than the creator.
He sees the end from the beginning.
You don’t see diddly-squat.
Or, do you think you do?
How about that time you took a left turn instead of a right turn only to hear later that something bad happened on the right turn?
Now, watch this.
And so, Pilate said to the crowd, “Whom shall I release to you—Jesus or Barrabbas!”
“Give us Barabbas!!!” they echoed.
The man was going to have a riot on his hands otherwise.
He released Jesus for him to be murdered.
So, gentlemen, and ladies, that’s the story of the electorate.
They have their ways.
They have their style.
They are sensitive.
They have “spoken” in Edo State.
If God was watching when they executed His only begotten son, what makes you think He is not watching over the matters of Edo State at this time?
Here’s a snapshot of comments that Egogonewshub received from a cross section of Edo people.
One commented: “What if God wants to use the foolish things of this world to confound the wise?”
Another said: “What if God is trying to teach us to put our trust in him instead of putting our trust in man?”
Yet another, a lawyer who did not want his name in print, had this to say: “What if God is trying to teach us principles of elementary Justice?”
I asked him to explain further:
“Let’s remove our Party caps for one minute,” he said.
“As eminently qualified as a certain candidate may be in our eyes, would it have passed the test of elementary justice, equity and fair play for him to triumph given what his principal had done to so many people, and what his principal did to get him to be the candidate of the PDP?”
He went on to tell a story which left me stunned for a moment.
He added:
“A man found himself under the rain on a dark, and eerie night.
He knocked on a random door.
A sympathetic family took him in.
In a matter of weeks, the family that took him in was rendered homeless.”
These must be very dark and difficult days for the candidate of the PDP.
Is it time for him to summon all the brilliance and skills he showcased throughout the campaign and step up?
Can he try to rebuild the PDP into a winning machine again?
Should he make a go for the soon to be vacated Senate seat?
Or, should he back someone else to get it?
Should he go to court knowing fully well that the people who made Number Four to become Number One in a certain Eastern State are waiting for him in the halls of “Justice?”
Does he have another N5B to blow on this adventure knowing fully well that a counter offer of N10B will be on the table also?
Should he do that which no one expects him to do by congratulating the declared winner and join hands with him to build the State as one powerful, united family?
Sometimes, the pathway to greatness is the one most often ignored—doing what no one expects us to do.
Wisdom waits silently; It waits to be embraced.
Michael Ovienmhada.
Reading your piece tells me straight that the right path for Dr. Asue Ighodalo Esq. is to head to Court immediately. No one has the monopoly of Judicial powers. It’s on records that a number of Governors have had justices full dispensed at the Courts and reclaimed their stolen mandates. Adams Oshiomhole is a beneficiary of this.
We may assume we have that we have people who seems to have had the judiciary under their sleeves and therefore dictates who should win in the courts. But, don’t forget that there is still God, the Almighty and there are still credible judges that will not want to dent their hard earned reputation for any amount of money. Also, there are lawyers who are willing to take on this case probono given the seaming over whelming glaring evidences in the case.
Let the Courts decide. If and when the case is fully decided, the loser can then congratulate the winner. It’s almost the norm that until election cases are fully dispensed at the apex court we cannot say that the case is over and the winner has emerged. I believe that it is not all cases, no matter how similar that are judged the same in Nigeria. Asue Ighodalo’s case will be different and the world will see, not minding the belief that the powers that be controls the judiciary.
In God we trust.