Archbishop Nicholas Okoh - Revealing a Truth-Bearing Ministry

Emma Maduabuchi
1 October 2009

Lagos — Elected to take up the leadership of the Church of Christ (Anglican Communion) by March 25 next year, the Primate-elect Archbishop Nicholas Okoh has already started drawing media attention. On Monday, September 28, he was widely reported as speaking out powerfully against the country's rulers.

Okoh, speaking in Abuja, the nation's capital, on the country's independence, berated Nigeria's leaders for the plight of the country, cautioning that unless they mended their ways, the country would remain stagnant.

Providing more details, he said unless leaders of the country change their attitude, have the fear of God, shun thuggery, ballot box snatching, political assassinations and treasury looting, that Nigeria would remain backward, "even if it celebrates its 1,000-year anniversary."

A father of five and retired lieutenant-colonel in the Nigerian Army, Nicholas Okoh will be taking the Anglican mantle of leadership in March 25 next year. But that will be after he has undergone some months of tutelage under the outgoing Primate, Peter Akinola. the rest