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A clergyman, Pastor Standfast Robinson, has lauded Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for recognizing and classifying the ancient stool of the O’Lema of Odual kingdom in Abua/Odual Local Government Area of the state.
Pastor Robinson who made the commendation on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, the state capital, while speaking to newsmen on the sidelines of his church’s service to mark Nigeria’s 59th independence anniversary also commended the governor for classifying the stool as second-class, as well as issuing the certificate of recognition and staff of office to the incumbent, King Temple Macdonald Jamala as the O’lema of Odual kingdom the XIX.
The general overseer of the New Creation Model Church in Greater Port Harcourt, Rivers State further thanked the governor for the recognition which he said has restored the Odual kingdom to its rightful position in the comity of ethnic nationalities in the state and for being the first chief executive of the state to do so for the Odual people in the over fifty years existence of the state.
He however appealed to the governor to upgrade the ancient stool to first class status in line with its contemporaries in the state, pointing out that, “The ancient Odual stool was first recognized in 1958 by the defunct Eastern region.”
The senior pastor further felicitated with the chairman of Odual council of chiefs, Chief John S. Agara, who celebrated his 82nd birthday recently and Pastor Micah Igonieghel for his coronation as the Olema of Ogboloma town in Odual kingdom.
Gov Wike, in marking the first one hundred days of his second tenure in office penultimate week upgraded some chieftaincy stools in the state as well as issued them with certificates of recognition and staffs of office.
On Nigeria’s 59th independence anniversary, he said true freedom comes from God and that Nigeria can only be truly independent when her citizens draw closer to God.
Drawing his sermon from John 8 verse 36, the man of God advised Nigerians to draw closer to God to experience true independence and freedom because, according to him, “if the son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed,” pointing out that freedom has eluded Nigerians due to bad leadership.
Last year, during the country’s 58th independence anniversary, the clergyman who had made it a tradition for his church to commemorate the county’s independence advised our leaders and politicians to see men as men and not as trees.
