Govs Otti, Diri, Eno, Peter Obi in attendance as Abia Govt holds state burial for Uma Ukpai

Abia State Government, connected Thursday, held a State burial work successful honour of the precocious Abia evangelist, Rev Uma Ukpai, who died astatine the property of 80 years.

Speaking during the lawsuit held astatine the International Conference Centre, Umuahia, Abia State, Governor Alex Otti challenged the radical to unrecorded a bully beingness truthful they would beryllium remembered for good.

Governor Otti noted that Papa Uma Ukpai did not dice but lone transited arsenic his legacies would stay indelible.

He urged Abia, Akwa Ibom radical and the full Christian religion not to mourn but to unrecorded beingness worthy of emulation.

Also speaking, Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, represented by his deputy, Akon Eyakenyi, described Rev Uma Ukpai arsenic a visioner who raised a bully procreation of people.

Earlier successful his sermon, the President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, said that the precocious Uma ...