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Success Of 2023 Elections Prevented Violence, Says Group

by Jerry Emmanson
2 years ago
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A non-governmental organisation, the National Unity Forum (NUF) has said the success and credibility of the 2023 general election prevented those with sinister motives from orchestrating post-poll violence in in Nigeria.

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In a statement he issued yesterday in Abuja, the national coordinator of the forum, Godwin Meliga, lauded the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, for living above board during the conduct of the 2023 general elections.

Meliga, in the statement, which came after the group converged on the Unity Fountain, Abuja, for a prayer march, said the group’s decision to resort to prayers to God as a way out of the myriad of challenges confronting the nation was informed by the time-tested efficacy of prayer, and guided by scriptural injunctions.

The NUF sets aside February 25 every year as its National Intercession Day.

At the event yesterday, the group held intercessory prayers for the president, the 36 state governors and all others in positions of authority in the country.

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After the session of prayer, worship and thanksgiving at the Unity Fountain, the group embarked on a solidarity march to the headquarters of INEC in Maitama, where it held another round of prayers for Yakubu and the success of all subsequent elections in Nigeria.

NUF particularly prayed for the success of Yakubu, while describing his position as pivotal to the sustenance, growth and development of Nigeria’s democracy.

He quoted 1Timothy 2:1-2 as follows: “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people – for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives…”

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Meliga said: “The group thanked Prof. Yakubu and his team for their strident efforts at ensuring the success and credibility of the 2023 General Elections.

“It opined that given the tense state of the national polity prior to the last general elections, due mainly to socio-ethnic and geopolitical diversities, any attempt by INEC to have delivered a compromised electoral process could have triggered violent upheavals across the country, which may have threatened the very fabrics of our mutual coexistence.

“But the fact that INEC, under Prof. Yakubu, was obviously above board in the discharge of its mandate during the last general elections, helped to a great extent in disarming all those nursing sinister intentions for the country, including all those who may wish to capitalize on the outbreak of widespread electoral violence to achieve their narrow destabilization agenda for Nigeria. ”

 

” Our group therefore enjoined all 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, “he added.

 

Meliga said while other Nigerians may” resort to acts of self-denial, civil disobedience and open protests in order to express their disenchantment with the prevailing socio-economic and political challenges facing Nigeria, his group resorted to praying because it was the best option for the country at the moment. ”

 

Quoting Job 12:23 -25, Meliga said, “He (God) makes nations great, and destroys them; he enlarges nations and dispenses them.”


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