The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has asked Muslims in the country to use the solemn period of the Eid el-Kabir to present Nigeria’s precarious situation to Allah for his prompt intervention.
Secondus, in his Eid el-Kabir message to the Muslim community in the country, said only justice and fairness, the type that only God gives, can rescue the nation from final damnation.
In the message, contained in a statement by his media adviser, Ike Abonyi, the party chairman said that the blood of thousands of innocent souls being wasted daily in the land should be enough mitigation to plead to God to save the country from destruction.
He urged Nigerians to also use the period to offer fervent prayers for the unity and stability of the nation, which he said, is seriously under threat due to poor leadership.
Stating that offering intense prayers for the country has become very necessary more than ever before, the PDP chair said the country is in dire need of divine intervention to survive, adding that citizens’ rights are being blatantly trampled upon by the new face of “despotism” in the polity.
“The Eid el Kabir period, coming at this critical time in our national life, provides the citizens an opportunity to put aside every political, religious and ethnic sentiments and unite against their prevailing common challenges.
“We know as a fact that this is not what Nigerians desired from democracy, especially given what happened on February 23, 2019, but a period like this solemn time provides the people an opportunity to ask Allah to allow the will of the people to prevail.
“It is a statement of fact that this is one of the worst times in our history as a country where lives are valueless and freedom denied to persons holding opposite views in a national discourse by an obviously intolerant political leadership”, the party chairman said.
Secondus said while the people’s indignation, frustration and disappointments were understandable, he urged them to seize the occasion to return to God in supplications to change the situation.
“I charged you not to allow the challenges of now make you lose your dignity and modesty as a people and miss the essence and meaning of Eid-el-Kabir festivity and the divine succour it brings, in assuring us that there is always light at the end of every tunnel”, he added.
He urged Nigerians not to lose hope in the face of overwhelming challenges, but to recommit their individual and collective security and economic welfare into the hands of God.