Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Kadri Hamzat, has stressed the need for the citizens to always pray for the governments at the federal, state and local council levels.
Hamzat, who gave the charge in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, at the weekend, during a Ramadan lecture organised by the Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board (LSMPWB) for its Umrah (lesser hajj) pilgrims, noted that it was the prayers of Prophet Ibrahim that turned the hitherto desert nation of Saudi Arabia into what it is today.
He added that no leader deliberately goes out to inflict pains and agonies on the citizenry or desire to fail, stressing that the importance of divine intervention cannot be over-emphasised.
According to him, the Federal Government reform through subsidy removal is already bearing fruits, as the nation’s monthly oil consumption has been reduced by a billion litres, wondering where the excess was going before the subsidy removal.
The deputy governor asserted that the total amount hitherto spent on subsidy was much more than the total budgets of the Federal Ministries of Works, Education and Health combined.
He said that those hitherto benefitting from subsidy removal were powerful people, who, expectedly, would fight back; hence, he urged the citizens to support the President with their prayers to succeed. Hamzat noted that nations do not develop by the curses or vituperation of citizens on social media; hence, he admonished them to desist from such acts.
