By Simeon Ndaji

It was celebration and thanksgiving, Sunday, at Assemblies of God Church, Ikeja, Lagos, when Elder Amobi Nwachukwu and his wife, Patience, 53, dedicated twins, delivered by the wife after 18 years of waiting.

The dedication of the twins, Emmanuel and Samuel, delivered on March 10 in the United States of America, was presided over by Dr. Charles Osueke, retired Assemblies of God General Superintendent.

Narrating his experience while believing God for a baby boy, Elder Amobi Nwachukwu told Vanguard: “My first daughter is a final year student of Medicine and the second girl, 18-year-old Esther, has cleared her Cambridge ‘A’ levels papers.”

He said as the only son of his parents and an African man, he was praying and believing God for a male child, adding “it looked like while I asked for one, Esther, inadvertently or deliberately, was asking for two brothers.

“When we were at Onitsha, Esther usually play with her friends, Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige’s children (five girls and four boys). When Esther will be going home, they will ask after her brothers and she will respond: ‘Emmanuel and Samuel are coming’.

“Eventually and miraculously, Esther’s twin brothers are here. To God be the glory.”

Also, a Federal Appeal Court Judge, Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme, who described the birth as miraculous, said: “This is the greatest miracle of 21st Century. I have twins as well, but Amobi (the father of the twins) my younger brother, has broken a record as his surpassed mine.”