The Jama’tu Izalatul Bid’a Wa’iqamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS) has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to call for national prayers in order to bring to an end the current insecurity rocking the country, particularly in the North.
Its National Chairman, Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau, gave the advice at a two-day weekly seminar held in Zaria City, Zaria local government area of Kaduna state at the weekend.
“It is only prayer can solve the problem of insurgency we are in now,” he said.
Sheikh Lau pointed out that during late General Sani Abacha’s regime when the country was in one crisis or the other, it was the prayer called by the late Head of State that solved the problems.
He urged the president to borrow a leaf from the late General Abacha in the interest of the nation, and lamented the insurgency which, he said, had become the order of the day in the North.
He said it was disheartening that government had allowed innocent Nigerians to be killed on a daily basis in the name of Boko Haram.
The chairman urged the various faithful in the country to be prayerful with the view to having peace, adding that until and unless people returned to God “we would continue to be in the problem.
Lau maintained that it was the responsibility of every government to guarantee the security of lives and property of its citizens, but the reverse, he lamented, “is the case in this country.”
According to him, prayer is the only solution for citizens where they have been pushed to the wall.
