LP Presidential Candidate Celebrates Easter With Prison Inmates, Preaches Hope

By Bitrus Kozah

The Labour Party Presidential candidate at the 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi has admonished prisoners not to feel isolated but to seek the face of God as they celebrate Easter.

Mr Obi who celebrated Easter mass with prisoners at the correctional centre in Onitsha, Anambra State, said that the Sunday Easter reflection shows that, “Mary Magdalene who was the first to discover the resurrected Christ was once unholy but today she is reformed and privileged to discover the rising of Christ even before the Apostles.”

Mr Obi who preached a message of hope to the prisoners said that “being in prison is not the end of life”.

During the Easter Sunday Mass the Archbishop of Onitsha Catholic Archdiocese, His Grace Valerie Okeke who celebrated Easter mass with about 12 other priests inside the Correctional Center had in a homily said that “if Mary Magdalene could transform to be among the early beneficiaries of Christ resurrection, even them in the Correctional Center can turn around to be great in the society and before God.”

The spokesperson of Mr Peter Obi’s Presidential Campaign Organization, Dr Yunusa Tanko in a press statement said that Mr Peter Obi’s Easter celebration with inmates has been an ongoing event even from his days as the Governor of Anambra State from 2006 to 2014.

Dr Tanko stated that the inmates were in jubilation, dancing and praising Mr Peter Obi as a friend and father of the prisoners.

Mr Obi also announced the donation of some food items and money for the prisoners and ongoing projects at the  Correctional Centre.

Emmanuel Ukoh