Dr Edgar Amos Sunday, Head of Service (HoS) Adamawa State has tasked the diverse ethnic nationalities in the state to embrace tolerance and spread the message of peace and love for the progress and development of the state.
Dr Edgar who organised a one-day cultural praises and worship galore at the LCCN Cathedral, Nassarawo Jimeta on Sunday explained that the aim of such event is promote integration, affinity and love between the diverse ethnic nationalities in the state that will enthrone peaceful coexistence in the state.
“The quest of the state to institute developmental strides will not achieve the desired premium in the absence of peace, love and tolerance.
“Advancement or development has no tribe, but needs an atmosphere of peace to thrive, that is why it is necessary to organise the event with a view to bringing together people from different ethnic backgrounds to appreciate the creator for sustaining us as a people and to appreciate the Creator for the grace to cross the many hurdles of life to this year’s end.” He said.
Edgar believes that the similarities that bind the different tribes of the state are much more greater than the differences that separate them, called on ethnic groups in the state to first of all embrace the creator and thereafter hold one another in love and respect.
Guest speaker of the event, Rev. Buntausa Sunday charged the people to make it a habit to appreciate the Creator through worship in their daily living as the Lord inhabits the praises of His people.
The Bishop of LCCN Yola diocese Rt Rev Amos Yakubu and the Dean LCCN Jimeta division Rev Gideon Ishaku among other clergies were unanimous that it is a beautiful thing to see people of different backgrounds united in the course of God’s worship.
In a remark, Chairman of the organising Committee Chief Felix Tangwami described gospel cultural music as an avenue to reach out to people in the grassroots with the gospel and to also appreciate the beauty of a people’s uniqueness.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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