How I became minister after Oyedepo’s prayers – Betta Edu

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, has attributed her appointment to the divine intervention following prayers from Bishop David Oyedepo, founder of the Living Faith Church, popularly known as Winners’ Chapel.

While sharing her testimony at the annual Shiloh event of the church on Friday, she said this happened at the 2022 edition of the programme.

Edu was appointed by President Bola Tinubu in August

Sharing her testimony, she said, “Church praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!! My name is Dr. Betta Edu and I came to thank God.”

She recounted her prayer from the previous year’s Shiloh, “Last year at Shiloh 2022, I prayed and told God that by the next time I come for the next year’s Shiloh, I want to be a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“On the last day of Shiloh, just as I was walking out, I saw Papa, Bishop David Oyedepo, and I went to greet him and meet him as usual and I whispered to him, ‘Papa, I need you to pray for me. I have just one prayer request now’. And he said, ‘What is it?’ I said, ‘I want to come back to Shiloh 2023 as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’. He put his hand on my head and he said, ‘It is done’. I stood up and I left.

“I came today to return all glory to God that in spite of all odds, today I’m a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. One of the youngest in the Fourth Republic. People of my age are not at the Federal Executive Council of Nigeria in this Fourth Republic. But today, I can boldly stand here to say, ‘God did it’. I came to return all glory to God.” Her story stands as a testament to her faith and the power of prayer in her life’s journey.”