Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), yesterday, urged Nigerians to pray for divine intervention in overcoming the present economic and security challenges, and a prosperous future for the country.
The Northern socio-cultural group said this year’s Easter was coming at a challenging time for all Nigerians, as they reel under daunting economic, social and political challenges.
Spokesman of the ACF, Prof Tukur Muhammed-Baba, stated, yesterday: “Even under the best of times, communities face dire socio-economic conditions, disappointing political representation, corruption, nepotism, etc., egregious ingredients for tough lives for Northern communities specifically.
“While it is easy to send arms flailing up in agony, people cannot and should not lose hope or surrender to despair. The occasion of the remembrance of the life and times of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace and Hope, provides reason to look up to God Almighty, for emancipation from humankind’s tribulations and trials.”
In the spirit of the season, ACF, therefore, called on the Christian ecclesia to pray for peace, security and economic recovery for the country.
“For God to guide and bestow the security agencies with the needed strength and bold resolve to crush all agents of criminality, insecurity and social and political destabilisation in Nigeria, that the fear of God enters the evil minds of terrorists and other criminals that they repent and reject, in totality, their culture of criminality, sin and social profanity.”
Muhammed-Baba prayed that under the prevailing situation in Nigeria, God comes to the aid of any innocent citizens being held captive in the criminals’ dens, so that they are released unharmed without further delay.
“In this season of Easter, God Almighty should restore hope for a better and more hospitable world on the pedestal of sustainable prosperity, justice, and equity as opposed to the current culture of despair and hopelessness so that humanity rises again from the ashes.”
