An All Progressives Congress, APC, leader in Enugu State, Chief Gbazuagu Nweke Gbazuagu recently held a thanksgiving and testimony service to celebrate his recovery from a “strange illness”.
The service was held at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Anglican Communion, Independence Layout, Enugu, and was witnessed by several top politicians.
According to Gbazuagu, he was struck with the illness for disobeying God.
He said that his offence was that he pledged N100 million for the construction of the cathedral of the newly created Oji River Diocese of the Anglican Communion where he hails from but reneged, hence God had to teach him a hard lesson by allowing him to suffer “more than the Biblical Nebuchadnezzar and Job”.
Gbazuagu said: “For nine months, I did not sleep for two hours each day. I went to different hospitals in the USA, Britain, Israel and India among others without any of the hospitals finding anything wrong but I was becoming lean and lean every day.
“For close to two years, I wore only two dresses and slippers because all my clothes were over- sized. My wife cried and cried to no end. My first daughter also cried in her room every night but there was no solution.
“After promising to donate N100 million out of the N1 billion needed to build the house of God, I reneged and started building an imposing structure for my three daughters. Everyday that the strange sickness lasted, I thought I was not going to see the next day. I suffered more than what Job and Nebuchadnezzar altogether suffered. I did not take any medicine and no doctor cured me.
“I was besieged by a strange illness which imperiled me physically, mentally, psychologically and materially and which defied all available medical solution. However, God Almighty, in His infinite mercy, gave me a second chance and miraculously healed me and granted me absolute recovery in all facets of my life.
“The strange illness afflicted, me thereafter and I continued to emaciate me. The illness denied me of sleep and I was being given tranquilizers all to no avail. I visited many countries including Britain, America, Israel, India, but nothing was diagnosed. I gave up hope after visiting these countries without cure.
“I decided to sell the useless house I was building since there was no sense in putting up such an edifice I will not live in. Immediately, I disposed of the House, I started recovering miraculously.
“It was when I sold the house built on an 8,500 square metres of land; all the structures I had put there, for peanut that I started recovering. God then blessed me again and this came with my daughter’s graduation. God didn’t only return me to life but also made my daughter to get first class in software engineering at the University of Lincoln. God showed me that all material things in the world are vanity upon vanity.”