‘Peter Obi: ‘We Are All Prisoners’ as He Celebrates Easter with Inmates
Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, encouraged prisoners not to despair, reminding them that everyone in Nigeria is, in a sense, imprisoned and seeking redemption.
Speaking during the Easter mass at the Correctional Center in Onitsha, Anambra State, Obi drew parallels between the transformation of Mary Magdalene, who discovered the resurrected Christ, and the potential for reform and redemption for all.
“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”.
The Archbishop of Onitsha Catholic Archdiocese, His Grace Valerie Okeke who celebrated the Easter mass with about 12 other priests inside the Correctional Center had in a homily said that if Mary Magdalene could transform to be among the early beneficiaries of the Christ resurrection, even them in the Correctional Center will turn around to be great in the society and before God.
The highlights of the Easter celebration with the inmates which Obi has been doing from his days as Governor of the Anambra State (2006 to 2014) were the dancing and elation of the inmates in their various cultural groups all shouting his praises as a friend and father of the Prisoners.
