Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says a new Nigeria is in the making, but it is currently covered by the clouds and travails which will certainly give way to a glorious and bright new morning of a new nation.
Professor Osinbajo spoke Friday at the National Prayer Breakfast, which held at the NAF Conference Centre, Kado in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Osinbajo said that the Friday National Prayer Breakfast comes at a time of great travail and tribulation for the country in the throes of a pandemic for well over a year, leading to a severe economic downturn, loss of jobs and livelihoods; and as we climbed out of the recession, we have been faced with an unprecedented scale of insecurity, in different zones of the nation.
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Referencing the Holy Book, Professor Osinbajo recalled the work and prophetic actions of men and women of faith who played vital roles in nation-building during biblical times. Professor Osinbajo thanked the organisers of the National Prayer Breakfast, as well as the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd) whom he described as the “father of the Nigerian Prays movement.”
The Vice President commended General Gowon “for his commitment and dedication to this nation from his youth, when he was Head of State when he led the fight to keep Nigeria one, to his later years as an elder statesman where his well-seasoned words uttered in Godly wisdom have counselled our nation’s leaders for decades.”
General Gowon, CAN President, Sam Ayokunle, among other dignitaries attended the prayer meeting.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
