Youths, women hold prayers for Tinubu, others

Youths and women under the aegis of the National Unity Forum (NUF) Sunday said the success and credibility of the 2023 general elections prevented those with sinister motives from orchestrating post-election violence in the country.

The NUF announced that it set aside February 25, of every year as its national intercession day.

The National Coordinator of the forum, Godwin Meliga, disclosed this in a statement after his members converged at the Unity Fountain, Abuja, for a prayer march for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the 36 state governors and others in positions of authority in the country.

After the session of prayers, worship and thanksgiving, the group embarked on a solidarity march to the headquarters of INEC in Maitama where they held another round of prayers for the chairman of the commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, for the success of all subsequent elections in Nigeria.

Meliga said, “We enjoin patriotic citizens of Nigeria, regardless of their faith, to consider it a civic obligation to spare some moments on the 25th of February every year to join their hearts in prayers to God for national peace, unity and progress.”