Deputy Governor of Cross River
State, Prof. Ivara Esu, is grateful to God for using the General
Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye,
to end cultism in the University of Calabar.
According to Esu, this happened between 2000 and 2005 when he was the Vice-Chancellor of the institution.
The
deputy governor said this while speaking in Calabar at a welcome dinner
in honour of the pioneer minister of Cross River Province 4 of RCCG,
Pastor Emmanuel Chidi.
He said, “Let me on behalf of the governor, Prof Ben Ayade,
congratulate RCCG House of David, for the elevation from a zone to a
province. I am glad to be here as one of those welcoming Pastor Chidi
Emmanuel and his wife to this new province.
“Personally, I have benefited immensely from Pastor Adeboye. Some of
you may not remember. While I was the vice-chancellor of UNICAL, I was
at the helm at a very turbulent time with so much cultism and students
were being shot right on campus, until God revealed to me that I should
bring Pastor Adeboye to pray in UNICAL.
“When Pastor Adeboye came, I accompanied him and we first prayed at
the gate and proceeded to my office to pray. From there, we went to the
male students’ hostel in ‘Malabor’ and prayed and thereafter we had a
large service at the Abraham Ordia Stadium, and from that day, that was
the end of violence and cultism in UNICAL.”