62 Bulls for Bishop Leonard Umunna

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“The fair-haired age is before us, not behind us”.-Williams Shakespeare English Poet& Playwright (1564-1616)

By June 25, 2016, Bishop Leonard Umunna,the Presiding Bishop of Bible Life Church Cathedral, would be making his 62nd birthday bash on earth in an holyghostic celebration.

For Mindset Media Limited to be celebrating a noble clergy from the Ajegunle city in Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State, shows the magnitude of love being exhibited by Bishop Umunna to members and friends around him over the years. I have the conviction that no Nigerian living or dead has written about this especial birthday celebrator as much as I have unflinchingly done for exclusive and personal reasons since May 13, 2013 on the Nigerian voice, Mindset media Limited, Isokotoday news,Niger-Delta online, ModernGhana online, Coast news, Gabrio Voice Magazine and others. I welcome any evidential contestation on this.

The only person who could meet any unprecedentedness, marginally in this particular communicative resolution, is Mr. Sam Eyoboka of the Vanguard Newspapers, a good man in all accountabilities, followed by Jim Sulaiman of the Commoners Newspaper and Zebulum Agomwo of the Businessday Newspapers(Media Adviser to Bishop Leonard Umunna).

Anytime I write about Bishop Umunna, there is a superfluity of fresh insights and novel perspectives because there are 62 million things to talk about him! This explains the in exhaustiveness of literature on his humble personage-despite overflowing anointing, wealth, arising from global ministry.

It is obvious that our subject today has divine blessings, which explains why everything he touches prospers beyond prefatory imaginations. Every prophecy he has prophesied concerning Nigeria’s leadership from politics to sports and to economy and education had come to pass. To Bishop Umunna,God never called me to mint money in His kingdom but to preach the undiluted message to sinners which I have been doing for the past 53years on the pulpit. To God be thy glory, many had been converted to Christ through my calling and I will continue to preach the truth nothing but the truth to my congregation and the world. There is hardly anything he goes into, which does not flourish to unbelievable heights. Some people wonder whether he has a magic wand that defines comprehension. His spiritual shadow continues to grow exponentially as if he has conquered his environment and now calls the tune in all facets of human existentialism. Only few clergies have such esoteric capacities.

It is not early to be celebrating a great man whose spiritual inputs are felt in the Pentecostal environment. Bishop Umunna’s legacies glowing in all ramifications. His exemplified uniqueness in ministry is different from other ministers of God of his age in Nigeria. He has moved from grassroots evangelism to global evangelism where his messages are centered on justification, salvation and sanctification.

Having trained several ministers of God in Nigeria, Bishop Umunna has remained faithful to His maker. Some ministers of God under his tutelage then, are now big-time general overseers doing pretty well in ministry. The uncommon thing about this associational Bishop of our time is dedication, honesty, forthrightness, commitment, humbleness and just mention but a few. Those probably meeting Bishop Umunna the first time would easily described him as a worldly clergy. To many, Bishop Umunna is a rare gem in the Pentecostal environment and as a dramatist and media brander, he is spiritually ordained to exhibit his profession in both private and public sectors.

Bishop Umunna is no gobbledygook clergy that tolerate unruly behavior among members in respect of your position in the society or church.

Despite all trials that surrounded his ancestral birth, Bishop Umunna never gave up his calling than pursuing his divine goal and calling into the five-fold ministry.

I felicitate with Bishop Umunna on this epochal occasion of his 62nd birthday. Nothing has really changed, as this big clergy still looks as if he just marked 60 years! What this suggests is that by the time, Bishop of Bible Life is 70 years; he may still appear to be 60 years. It is not indicative of money, but God’s blessings. This is to wish you more blessings and power to your elbow sir.

Bishop Umunna has epitome of love and grace in his calling which has helped me overcome some skeletal trials over the years as a Pentecostal writer. He is not just a minister of God, a mentor,father,grandfather,father of the poor,educationist,a role model,instrumentalist,dancer,singer,writer,award-winner and many more. He has become a voice in the media industry where his views are highly respected and honoured in all climes. A man of God that is bestowed with both local and international awards to his credit.

His reclusiveness, humility and philanthropic humanism are unparallel in this part of the world where absence display of wealth and class haughtiness is the crass second nature of money seeking clergies. Bishop Umunna’s ministerial nationalism and diplomacy are enough justifications for this celebratory interlude in the life of a man who is 99 percent holyghostically made and self-made. There is nothing in his pedigree to explain his borderless and boundless affluence in supernatural measures. Once again, happy birthday in advance to my creative and progressive servant of God of the 21st century!

Godday Odidi
Social Media Strategist
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Lagos

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