‘He Was A True Servant Of God, Humanity’, Tinubu Mourns Renowned Televangelist Uma Ukpai’s Passing

President Bola Tinubu has mourned the passing of renowned evangelist, Dr Uma Ukpai, describing him arsenic a existent servant of God and humanity whose beingness was marked by faith, compassion, and committedness to nationalist unity.

In a connection personally signed by him connected Monday, Tinubu said the precocious Ukpai was “not conscionable different preacher, but 1 of God’s generals, filled with occurrence and crystal for the gospel and restoring humanity to discipline, love, and bully neighbourliness.”

Dr Ukpai, laminitis of the Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association and a cardinal pioneer of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), passed distant astatine the property of 80.

The President noted that the celebrated evangelist was among those who spearheaded the revival question that swept crossed Nigeria and parts of Africa successful the 1980s, recalling large crusades that defined his ministry and drew millions to the faith.

“I callback his Greater Ibadan for Christ Crusade successful 1982 and the Greater Lagos for Christ Crusade successful 1985 — 2 phenomenal events successful some proportionality and impact,” Tinubu said. “He was a firebrand and a bridge-builder whose ngo was to unite the Christian fold, fortify religion crossed divides, and beforehand bid and harmony successful the nation.”

The President extolled Dr Ukpai’s humanitarian works, noting that beyond the pulpit, helium established galore charities, schools, and hospitals to uplift the mediocre and underprivileged.

“Dr Ukpai was not lone a preacher of the Word but a doer of bully works,” Tinubu added. “He built men and bridges, linking faiths, people, tongues, and tribes. He has fulfilled his divine ngo and has gone to beryllium with the Lord. He fought the bully fight, finished the race, and kept the faith.”

While commiserating with the household of the deceased, the President urged them to find comfortableness successful the bequest helium near down — a bequest of faith, service, and emotion for humanity.

“I widen my condolences to his wife, Pastor Philomena Uma Ukpai, their children, and the full Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association. May they find solace successful knowing that helium lived a beingness worthy of emulation,” helium said.

President Tinubu prayed that God Almighty volition assistance the precocious evangelist eternal remainder and springiness his family, the Christian community, and each Nigerians the fortitude to carnivore the loss.

“Dr Uma Ukpai was a vas chosen by God to interaction lives and signifier souls. His interaction volition beryllium felt for generations,” the President concluded.