The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, has attributed her appointment as a minister to an answered prayer she made at the Shiloh 2022 event organized by the Living Faith Church, popularly known as Winners’ Chapel. Shiloh is an annual program that attracts millions of Christian faithful and is held in the first week of December.
Recalling her experience at Shiloh 2022, Edu shared that she prayed at the event, expressing her desire to become a minister in Nigeria. According to her account, the Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church, David Oyedepo, prayed for her during the program, specifically addressing her aspiration to become a federal minister.
In a testimony during the Hour of Visitation at the Canaanland premises of Winners’ Chapel, Edu stated, “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.”
Betta Edu, at 37 years old, is considered 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).
