Vice President Yemi Osinbajo Sunday organised a thanksgiving to mark the one-year anniversary of his survival of helicopter crash in Kabba, Kogi state.
The Vice President and 11 other persons had escaped a helicopter crash while on campaign trail for the 2019 general elections.
The thanksgiving, held ay the Aso Villa Chapel, Presidential Villa in Abuja, was attended by Dolapo Osinbajo, family members and aides of the Vice President.
Osinbajo described the crash as “an awesome and incredible deliverance.”
“I think that what happened on that occasion was so amazing, so miraculous; 12 of us in a helicopter; the helicopter crashed and not one scratch on anyone of us.
“That’s just incredible. So, we can only continue to thank God and to praise the Lord Jesus Christ for an awesome deliverance of so many of us. So, we just keep thanking God. That’s why we are here this morning to just praise God,” he said.
He said the survival of all the people in the helicopter crash demonstrated God’s mercy and has strengthened his faith in God and in the Nigerian nation.
“Can you imagine a situation where you survived a helicopter crash? I think it demonstrates that God is merciful; God is awesome; he is able to do all things.
“I think it just strengthened my faith and the faith of all those who were there,” he said.
Also speaking, the Chaplain of the Aso Villa Chapel, Reverend Seyi Malomo, said the incident was “a miracle for Nigeria; it is not just for His Excellency alone, it’s for the President. It is for every one of us.”
He said the thanksgiving was an injunction in all faiths and was necessary when God does something that defies human understanding.
“When God has done something great for you, it is just necessary to say thank you to God.
“We all know that that is part of our culture. All faith, all religion; thank you is part of our language, but when what he did is even beyond imagination – 12 people in an aircraft, no scratch it could only be God,” he said.
