The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, has revealed that her appointment as a minister was an answer to her prayer at Shiloh 2022.
Shiloh is an annual event organised by the Living Faith Church, also known as Winners’ Chapel, which attracts millions of Christian faithful from across the country. The event takes place in the first week of December.
Edu shared her experience at the 2022 edition of the six-day programme, where the Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church, David Oyedepo, prayed for her desire to become a minister in the country.
“Church, praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!! My name is Dr. Betta Edu, and I came to thank God,” she said on Friday’s Hour of Visitation at the Canaanland premises of the Winners’ Chapel in the Ota area of Ogun State.
“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.”
Edu was one of the ministers who were screened and confirmed by the Senate in early August. At the age of 37, she is one of the youngest ministers in President Bola Tinubu‘s cabinet. Prior to her appointment, she served as the National Women Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
