The General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life
Ministry, Pastor Williams Kumuyi, has said it is the desire of Nigerians that
the country should rise again to take
its position of leadership on the continent of Africa as the country celebrates
its 62nd Independence anniversary.
According to a video on the Facebook page watched by our
correspondent on Saturday, Kumuyi said this while addressing journalists after
his arrival at the Ibadan Airport for
the his programme, “Global Youth Convention, Impact scheduled to run from
Friday to Monday.
The cleric also called on the youths to participate in
politics and to vote for the candidates of their choice in the 2023 elections.
Kumuyi said, “It is the right of every citizens as well as
the responsibility of everyone to participate in politics. We desire a better
country we want Nigeria to rise up again as the giant of Africa to take its
rightful place.
“We expect our youths to want to see a Nigeria of thier own
dream not by violence but by knowing their rights and responsibilities and to
vote for the candidate of their choice, I will not dictate to anyone, they know
the best, we all know what we are looking for and the Lord will guide them
and make their votes count.”
He said the convention themed, “Transformed to lead” would
be watched in over 150 nations, saying participants who are mainly youths would
be taught by high-calibre resource persons.
He said further that “we are not here for entertainment,
what we want to do is to really impact the lives of everyone that will come
from Nigeria and the Diaspora. The youths are gathering together not only in
Nigeria but beyond and we want to go through a series to encourage, to lead us,
to impact, to inject the young people so that their lives would be transformed
by the Lord and their own decisions too as we prepare the leaders of tomorrow
for the future.
“We are believing that as the young people come, they come
with their hearts and their minds and their vision and the desire to excel. We
believe that great things are going to happen in their lives and we are not
talking to them like we’ve come to preach to them or come like clergymen. We
have come just like they are. We are still young at heart and we have quite a
lot of things we want to infer to the younger generation before we hand over to
them.”
In his own remark, the Oyo State Commissioner for Youth and
Sports, Seun Fakorede, lauded Kumuyi’s enthusiasm to affect the lives of the youths while recalling that he
became a commissioner at the age of 27 adding the current administration in the
state was not relenting in its effort to build the youths.
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