Sallah: Obi tells Muslims to seek Allah’s intervention over bloodshed in Nigeria
By Jeffrey Agbo
Former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has charged Nigerian Muslims to use the window availed by Sallah to seek Allah’s intervention in Nigeria’s situation.
Obi charged the people not to allow the prevailing unprecedented hardship in the country to affect their spirit of love, brotherliness and peaceful co-existence.
Instead, he said the people should use this year’s Eid-el-Fitri festivities to engender the spirit of oneness and also re-dedicate themselves to the virtues of love, patriotism and unity for the desired national development.
Obi, in a message on Tuesday to Muslims, noted that the two major faiths, Christianity and Islam, coming out of their fasting period should allow the solemnness of the holy months to influence their thoughts and actions in relating with one another and thinking about the future of the country.
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The former Anambra State governor said the amount of blood being shed in the country daily is discomforting, urging Muslims to take the situation to Allah for his prompt intervention.
The Labour Party leader said that the blood of thousands of innocent souls being wasted daily in the land at various troubled spots, particularly the stress of school children in the north, and the needless death of troops should be enough mitigation to plead to God to save Nigeria from destruction.
“An intense prayer for our dear country has become very necessary more than ever before as our nationhood is in dire need of divine intervention to survive.
“Our economy is already under severe stress, the currency is losing value daily, unemployment and inflation rising,” he said.
Obi finally implored the people not to despair and miss the essence and meaning of festivity and the divine succour it brings, assuring that there is always light at the end of every tunnel as a new Nigeria is possible.