I Prayed Ten Hours Daily During Quarantine – Okupe

Two-time former presidential aide, Dr. Doyin Okupe has given fresh insight into his experience during COVID-19 quarantine saying it was a particularly engaging time in prayers as he and his wife were near death.

Dr. Okupe who served as a presidential aide in the Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan administrations was hospitalized along with his wife on April 23 after they both tested positive. They were discharged on May 10 following negative test results.

Okupe in an interview with Sunday Vanguard’s Olayinka Ajayi spoke of how he turned a prayer warrior saying it was a near-death experience.

He paid compliments to the medics including doctors and nurses doctors including the state commissioner for health, Dr. Yomi Coker. GreenWhiteGreen had earlier reported that Dr. Coker was a flower girl during Dr. Okupe’s wedding in 1977.

Narrating his experience, he said:

“The isolation was psychologically traumatic and distressing.  We had all the good care possible. Good, neat, and modern environment. Superb nursing and professional handling and management. Prompt response to issues and complaints.  Even good food.

“But the unpredictability of the virus, its potential, and possible vagrant behaviour, for me, in particular, being a medical person, all made life a bit stiff and encumbering.

“The lucky thing for my wife and I was that we did not come down with any respiratory or breathing problems. Loneliness and anxiety was something we had to deal with. For us, that did not seem a major problem because we realised that nobody in the world had a cure or solution.

“So we turned full face to God for healing. We prayed with our prayer ministers, family, and friends for seven to 10 hours daily constantly in supplication and praises to God and our Lord Jesus Christ. We took Holy Communion often and claimed the cleansing and healing in the blood of Jesus. And eventually by His stripes at Calvary, we were healed.

“The recovery phase started with the news of our testing negative on Friday, May 10. We were both joyous. But devil struck two days later on Sunday, the day we had projected to go home. New sets of results came and my wife recorded her second negative while mine came back positive.

“We saw this as a device of the devil. Instead of being dejected, we rolled up our sleeves spiritually and enlisted the support of our prayer partners. During that night vigil, we concentrated on Mathew 18: 18 to 20.

“My wife and I, based on the word in this scripture, discountenanced the result and decreed in an agreement that we will go home on Tuesday, May 14. So, on Monday, the 23rd, we packed all our belongings and zipped our two boxes ready to go. The fruits we had left in the fridge were packed together and given to our neighbours.

“As God will have it, in a clear demonstration of His capacity to answer prayers, I was woken up by a call from Dr. Ajayi, the head of the Ogun Covid-19 team, who told us that they now had other results showing negatives and so we can leave that Tuesday!

“We give all glory to God. What are the lessons you learnt from this experience? Lessons learnt, first of all, is that even when the whole world is unsure of which direction to go, or when the crisis of life comes or when, by human standards, we are told that we are disadvantaged, the only one we can look forward to for deliverance is the Almighty God and His only begotten son Jesus Christ.”

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