The couple’s first child was born miraculously after doctors had said Mrs Humphrey was not able to bear children.
The Nation reports:
After 23 years of marriage, Mary, wife of former Minister of State, Interior, Humphrey Abah has delivered her first baby.
A thanksgiving service attended by top
government functionaries and other dignitaries was held in Abuja on
Sunday at the United Evangelical Church, National Worship Centre to
celebrate the birth of the baby.
Abah who said for twenty-three years his
political opponents laughed at him for not been able to father a child
was grateful to God for finally granting his desire.
He revealed that even doctors in London have “said that my wife will not be able to bear any child.”
The ex-minister said God has since been
his hope even after doctor’s declaration adding that there was no
pressure from his family to either marry another wife or seek another
alternative.
His words: “I always pray to God for a
day like this. My political opponents have used my childlessness to mock
me. I have come across some people who initially we were in the same
camp together but because you did not do one thing or the other that
they wanted you to do on grounds of principle the say ha… we are not
surprised after all he does not have a child. You get that kind of jab. I
keep telling people that I have gotten to a position in life that I am
driven by what the word of God have promised me and I do not take to
comments that come from sides.
“I told my wife not to listen to side
talks but should focus on God and she has always listened to me. My
advice for other people who are looking for this type of day is for them
to draw strength from our testimony. Because God has promised he shall
not fail.”
The mother of the baby boy, whose name is David Onu Abah said after fifty years of age it is only God that can give a child.
Her words: “I feel great and grateful
unto the lord for all that he has done for wiping away my tears and
making me a mother at last. It is a dream I have had since I married at
the age of 27.
“Now I am more than 49 years of age. It
has taking a long time for this to come true. I have shed many tears. My
lives have witnessed my tears. But regardless of them all the journey
has been rough.
“In the year 2012 on my birthday which
was November 18, it was a Sunday I came to the church and I asked the
pastor and he asked a little child to pray for me. The church rose up
and chorused Amen. That same Sunday the church organised a praise
concert and I danced before the lord and I said the lord has provided me
with a birthday gift. After that we came April 2013 and there was
fasting and prayer I keyed into it and I prostrated before the lord and I
asked him to please answer my and not to allow my enemies have the last
laugher on this matter.
“Our story is that of Abraham and Sarah. I
have passed menopause and I have been looking unto you if you did it
for Sarah then you have to give me strength to conceive. Even when
London Doctors in 2011 told me nothing could be done. I knew that it is
only him that can help me. But I focused on the lord. When they told me
that I was pregnant I ran the test and I was pregnant and I said truly
the Lord is faithful. I scrammed and cried in the Hospital and everyone
there rose up in the same vain and were giving thanks unto the lord.
Since then the story has been from one testimony to another. Our child
was born on the October 10, 2013.”
Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro
described the ex-minister as a man of faith urging others waiting for
the Lord to emulate the family.
His words: “He is my friend and he was
the Minister of State Interior. Something wonderful has happened in the
life of this family. For those looking for a child they should have the
spirit of faith and patient. God works in a miraculous ways. Most of the
things that we require in live if not all God gives and he gives at his
own time. The birth of this child after so many years of waiting is a
lesson for all that before God no time is late.”
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