Pres. Jonathan Likens Nigeria’s difficulties To Israelites’ Journey To Canaan

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday compared the current difficulties confronting the nation to the hardship experienced by the Israelites on their voyage from Egypt to the Promised Land.

Jonathan talked amid his foster niece’s wedding thanksgiving administration at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Life Camp, Abuja.

He told the gathering that pretty much as the Israelites in the long run made it to Canaan in spite of the various difficulties that faced them on the way, Nigeria would get to its craved end of the line.

The president urged Nigerians to keep on supporting the administration and appeal to God for the nation, including that legislature would continue trying its hardest to beat the difficulties.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the thanksgiving administration emulated the wedding of the president’s nieces’s, Inebharapu Paul, with Simeon Onyemaechi, on Saturday.

The service, which held at the Ecumenical Center, Abuja, had pulled in critical dignitaries including previous President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The wedding gathering was later held at the International Conference Center in Abuja.

While thanking God for accomplishment in the whole marriage process, Jonathan asked the gathering to go along with him in petitions to God for peace and bliss to rule in the couple’s home.

The president was joined by his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan; his mom, Eunice, and some of his helpers.

NAN additionally reports that special prayers to God were offered by the Primate of the Anglican Church, the Most Revd, Nicholas Okoh, for couple, the first family and for the country.

He later introduced a carton of the Anglican yearly reverential as a blessing to the president and additionally the congregation’s song books and datebook to the couple.