Okupe replies Osinbajo: fasting, prayer alone can grow Nigeria

Former media aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has faulted comments by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo saying that prayer and fasting alone cannot help grow the country’s economy.

Recall that Osinbajo while addressing civil servants in Abuja, on Wednesday had noted that prayer and fasting alone cannot help grow Nigeria if the needed hardwork is not put into it.

Reacting to the comment, Okupe quoted some portions of the bible to back up his claims that prayer and fasting can actually help Nigeria out of the current economic situation and other crisis.

In a series of tweets on his social media handle @DoyinOkupe, the former Presidential aide wrote, “I beg to disagree with VP, yes there is no substitute to hardwork but that alone can’t make a nation great but fasting and prayer certainly will.

“We can neither limit the extent of God’s power nor can we compartmentalize his area of influence. God is sovereign. He can do any and all things.

“Jehoshaphat army did not have to fight. They did not lift a finger. God fought their battles. They did not have to lift a finger but yet had victory.

“2nd  Kings chapter 3 :17 KJV: ‘For thus saith the Lord, yea shall not see wind, neither shall yea see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water.”