Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Betta Edu recently revealed that Bishop David Oyedepo of Winners Chapel International prayed for her at Shiloh 2022 to become a minister.
Oyedepo’s church holds an annual six-day programme called Shiloh in the first week of December. It attracts millions of Christians within and outside the country.
Speaking during the church’s hour of visitation, Edu said: “Church praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!! My name is Dr. Betta Edu and I came to thank God.
“Last year at Shiloh 2022, I prayed and told God that by the next time I come for the next year’s Shiloh, I want to be a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“On the last day of Shiloh, just as I was walking out, I saw Papa, Bishop David Oyedepo, and I went to greet him and meet him as usual and I whispered to him, ‘Papa, I need you to pray for me. I have just one prayer request now.’
And he said, ‘What is it?’ I said, ‘I want to come back to Shiloh 2023 as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.’
He put his hand on my head and he said, ‘It is done.’
I stood up and I left.
“I came today to return all glory to God that in spite of all odds, today I’m a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. One of the youngest in the Fourth Republic.
“People my age, are not at the Federal Executive Council of Nigeria in this Fourth Republic. But today, I can boldly stand here to say, ‘God did it’. I came to return all glory to God.”
The 37-year-old was until her appointment as minister the national women leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).