The Primate of the Church of Nigeria, the Most Rev. Henry Ndukuba, with his children, have brought the Clergy and wives of the Diocese of Abuja and the staff of the St Matthias House Abuja to join them in a get-together at the Episcopal House Multi-purpose Hall, Wuye, Abuja, to celebrate the 59 th birthday of the Primate’s wife, Mrs Angela Eberechukwu Ndukuba last Sunday, 5th September, 2021.
Speaking at the event, the Primate said the wife was thinking of a more elaborate celebration next year when she will clock 60. But the family considered the mini celebration worthwhile, even as it also provided the clergy and wives with a moment of leisure and relaxation with one another which the exigency of duty hardly allowed them.
He said he proposed to his wife on an eve of her birthday which she was not keen to accept as she had
been living with her brother who was a priest and would want a change. But when the marriage later held, she proved an immense asset and support to his life and ministry. He said: “She is diligent and caring. She connected school, home and church, waking early and going to bed late. She is a better counsellor than myself; a good manager and administrator and has always stood by me. I greatly value her”.
Some of the clergy wives and church officials at the event also extoled the virtues of the Primate’s wife. Mrs Otoki said she is “very beautiful inside out, caring, down to earth, meticulous and a great resource to the ministry of the Primate as Priscilla to Aquila”. Mrs Evelyn Nwafili described her as “Easy to go, simple, humble and very hospitable” and Mrs Akanya as “embodiment of beauty, humility and godliness whose heading the women ministry brought a lot of changes”. Other speakers like Mrs Ndubisi, the Registrar and Synod Secretary of the Diocese of Abuja, Bar Mrs Kehinde Ajoni and The Ven. Joshua Lambert, also highlighted the synchronisation of her physical and spiritual beauty and the sterling qualities that have boosted the ministry and family of the Primate.
The event featured toasting of the celebrant, cutting of birthday cake by the Primate and wife, feeding each other with the cake and dancing.
BY PRINCEWILL IREOBA
