Obinna Onuoha hired Chinese company to carve the 8.53 metre (28 foot) tall "Jesus de Greatest" statue in 2013 out of white marble.
Standing barefoot with arms outstretched, the 40 ton statue will tower over St. Aloysius Catholic Church in the mainly Christian village of Abajah in Nigeria's southeastern state of Imo.
"It's going to be the biggest statue of Jesus on the continent," said Onuoha, the 43-year-old chief executive officer of an oil and gas distribution company.
"Definitely pilgrims will come."
Around 1,000 people are expected to attend the statue's unveiling on New Year's Day.
Onuoha said he has contacted the police just to be sure that it is not attacked or vandalised.
"We think religions can exist side by side," Onuoha said. "We hope that people can live in harmony."
Onuoha says he had a dream in 1997 to build a giant statue of Jesus.
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