Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the general election of 2023, has advised prisoners not to feel hopeless and alone since everyone in jail in Nigeria is looking up to God for release and salvation.
Mary Magdalene, the first person to discover the resurrected Christ, was once unholy, but today she is reformed and privileged to discover the rising of Christ even before the Apostles, according to Obi, who celebrated Easter mass with the prisoners at the Correctional Center in Onitsha, Anambra State.
“What that means is that being in prison is not the end of life as they could get corrected and enjoy salvation even before the so-called free people”.
His Grace Valerie Okeke, the Archbishop of the Onitsha Catholic Archdiocese, delivered a homily during the Easter mass held inside the Correctional Center. She said that if Mary Magdalene could change to become one of the first people to benefit from Christ’s resurrection, then even the inmates of the Correctional Center would eventually rise to greatness both before God and in society.
The highlights of the Easter celebration that Obi has been hosting with the prisoners during his tenure as governor of Anambra State (2006–2014) were the prisoners’ joyous dancing and yelling in their various cultural groupings, all of them praising him as their father and friend.
