How I built a Church while in prison – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Nigerians to be useful to God no matter their circumstance. Mr. Obasanjo spoke at the Shepherdhill Baptist Church in Lagos, Sunday, during a Thanksgiving Service to mark his 80th birthday.
The former president said God made him do three things while he was an inmate at Yola Prison. “One, God made me to build a church,” Mr. Obasanjo said. “It’s very unusual, I asked the authorities for land, they were reluctant, but eventually they gave me land and immediately we started getting donations. “It was started before I left Yola.
Wherever you are, you can still be useful to the work of God.” Mr. Obasanjo said he also got approval from prison authorities to farm while in detention and he cultivated “enough beans to feed all the inmates and warders.” When he was transferred to the Kirikiri Prison in Lagos, Mr. Obasanjo said he became the prison pastor and won several souls for God.