By Enoch Shaks & Nanzing Zingkong, Jos


Dr. Patrick Sunday Dakum, the Plateau State Labour Party (LP) Governorship Candidate and the Leader of the Consolidation For Greater Plateau2023 Team has called on Nigerians to give Papa,Mama,Pikin, the Labour Party, the chance to lead the nation in 2023 since the other big political parties have not lived to the expectation of Nigerians.

 This call was made at the 2022 Annual Thanksgiving Service and Fundraising Launching of the ECWA Goodnews Gwarandok on Sunday 6th November 2022.

Representing Dr. Patrick Sunday Dakum, the LP Governorship Candidate, Chief Amb. Nanyah A. Daman, the Director of Media of the Consolidation For Greater Plateau 2023 Team, reeled out the qualities of Dakum which places him high amongst other candidates for the race to Rayfield Government House.

 The Representative of Dakum hinted that while other candidates are celebrating intentions, the Labour Party is telling Plateau people what he has done in the last 30 years to improve the standard of living of the people, like assisting in the production of anti – snake venom in Plateau State,helping in the establishment of the Angware,Mabudi and Riyom General Hospitals, drilling boreholes in Bassa and other parts of the state , assisting Berom sons and daughters in entrepreneurship, mentoring children as a Sunday school teacher, employing more than 270 Plateau Indigens in the institute of Human Virology,Abuja,attitudinal change via Daily Walk with Christ and other Christian literatures, stabilisation of Governments, Covid–19 assistance, helping of IDPs with building materials and food etc.

 Rev John .Y. Adang the Reverend in charge of ECWA Goodnews Gwarandok –Abbattoir, Jos in his homily gave the theme of the 2022 Annual Thanksgiving Service as "Give Thanks to God in All Circumstance" found in 1 Thessalonians 5:18.

 Adang said that the theme for the thanksgiving is deliberately chosen in view of the fact that just this week our beloved brother , Elder Babangida Bala left us to be with the Lord in glory and his burial took place on Saturday 5th November 2022 at Kaura in Kaduna State.

 The eloquent Reverend John Adang said " simply put, thanksgiving from a Christian understanding is the act of showing gratitude or appreciation to God. This forms an important part of worship and it is supposed to be done"  in all circumstances"– meaning regardless of what one may be going through at the moment. 

  Adang hinted that Christian thanksgiving is a matter of conviction and not convenience, communion and not commandment, contentment and not covetousness.

 The Reverend in charge of ECWA Goodnews Gwarandok concluded that "our God is the giver of all good things namely,Wealth,Health, Peace, Education, Wisdom, Family, Money, and above all Salvation".

  Hon. Ezekiel Izang Yakubu, the Guest Speaker and the Executive Chairman of Jos East LGC of Plateau State admonished Christians to show gratitude for all God has done for them. He said a Christian must thank God for being alive to come to church, for the free air he or she breaths and for the blessings of children.

  Donations were made by the Chairman of the occasion, Hon. Chris Hassan, the Chairman of the PDP Vice Chairman, Hon. Phillip Adik, the APC State Organising Secretary, who represented Hon. Rufus Bature, Mrs Sarah Ochekpe, the former Minister of Water Resources, Dr. Patrick Sunday Dakum, the Labour Party Governorship Candidate represented by Chief Amb. Nanyah A. Daman, Director of Media of Consolidation For Greater Plateau Team, Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda, the APC Governorship Candidate, who was represented by Henry Jap, Chairman Kanke LGC, Hon. Caleb Mutfwang, PDP Governorship Candidate, who was represented by Comrade Hansi Suleiman, Chairman of the 2022 Annual Thanksgiving Service of ECWA Goodnews Gwarandok, Hon. Daniel Dem, who represented Senator Istifanus .D. Gyang and a host of others.