Guinean
President, Alpha Condé, asked all Muslims in the country to hold a 24-hour
prayer for President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday.
Condé gave
this order while addressing the country’s Council of Ministers in a meeting on
Thursday.
At the
meeting, the Guinean President expressed concern for his Nigerian counterpart’s
health and afterward declared that Friday be devoted to prayers for Buhari’s
quick recovery.
According to
an online platform, www.guineenews.org, Condé said Buhari was expected to visit
Nigeria in March but was unable to do so because of his health.
As a result,
the Guinean President asked that prayers be held in all mosques in the country
in what he described as a day of prayers for Buhari.
About 85 per
cent of the Guinean population (11 million) are Muslims; eight per cent are
Christians; while seven percent are traditionalists.
According to Saharareports, Buhari had
since May 7, 2017, two months after returning from a 49-day London medical
trip, returned to the country again for medical treatment.
His long
absence from work had intensified calls for his health status to be made
public, while several Nigerians had called for his resignation.
A suit had
been filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja asking for an order
compelling the Federal Executive Council to declare the ailing President as
unfit to continue to hold office and another suit mandating the National
Assembly to constitute a medical panel to verify the President’s fitness.
The suit,
marked FHC/ABJ/CS/671/2017, was filed on Thursday by the incorporated trustees
of a civil society group, Kingdom Human Rights Foundation International.
In February
2017, Muslims in major state capitals and towns in the North had also held
marathon prayers for the quick recovery of President Buhari.
The special
prayer sessions were held at various Eid prayer grounds in Nasarawa, Kano,
Kaduna, Katsina and Kwara states.
0 Comments