Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has told of his grass to grace story.
Speaking at an adoration night presided over by Reverend Father Mbaka in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital on Monday, Nwifuru revealed that during his first attempt to win election into the State Assembly he was into bricklaying.
He also made it known that at one time in his life he was a bus conductor.
“I joined adoration when I was a conductor, and anytime we had issues that we needed to sleep in Enugu on Wednesdays, I would always go to the adoration ground.
“Between 2001, 2002 and 2003, adoration witnessed a lot of turbulence, and we were always there, solidly behind the ministry.
“Today, I’m happy to tell you that even before I contested my first election in 2007, I was still a bricklayer, and in less than five years, I became a Speaker of the state House of Assembly.
“A bricklayer who was looking for a job to get N1,000 a day.
“Are we not serving a wonderful God?
“Who tells you that your story will never be better than mine?
“Now, like a joke, I have become your governor,” the governor stated in his testimony at the church programme.
In his own remark, Father Mbaka complimented Nwifuru saying he is a big beneficiary of God’s grace and favour: “You can imagine a bricklayer becoming a governor.
“How? “With God, all things are possible.”
