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Representative of Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, Speaker of Bauchi State House of Assembly, Abubakar Y. Suleiman planting a tree at the CAN center in Bauchi
By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi
Bauchi State Governor, Sen Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir has stressed that it is only divine intervention by God through fervent prayers by Nigerians that can solve the myriad of challenges facing the country particularly issue of insecurity.
The Governor made the assertion on Saturday during a one-day prayer rally organized by the State Chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) held at the CAN center in Rafin Zurfi saying that effective prayer is what can open the gate of mercy of God.
Represented by the Speaker, Bauchi State House of Assembly, Abubakar Y Suleiman, Bala Mohammed called for joining of hands by people of the state irrespective of ethnoreligious differences in praying to God for quick intervention.
The Governor who quoted several verses in the Bible said that the two main religions believe in the Supremacy of God the more reason going back to God is the only remedy to insecurity and other challenges facing the country.
While commending CAN for organizing the prayer rally, he said that the program cannot have come at a better time than now when all hands must be on deck to salvage the deteriorating insecurity situation in the country saying though that Bauchi State remains the safest in the North East sub-region.
He also appealed to the Christian community in the state to embrace the ongoing vaccination against COVID-19 infection stressing that the vaccine has no any serious negative effects when taken moreso all those who want to perform the 2021 holy pilgrimage to Israel must take.
The Governor said that, “information reaching me have it that some of you regard the vaccination against COVID-19 infection as antichrist, it is not, it is the surest means to fight COVID-19 pandemic. I am appealing to you to please take it”.
Bala Mohammed assured that his administration will continue to relate with all religious leaders in the state calling on Christians to remain supportive of his administration in its quest to transform the state.
Earlier in his address, Bauchi State CAN Chairman, Rev Dr Abraham Damina Dimeus declared that, “The world is at the verge of collapsing, because the atrocities is at the increase and we cannot sit down and watch the situation deteriorate in our days without swinging into action. What we are doing today is to cry to God for mercy and to help restore back to us our lost glory”.
He added that it is time for a clarion call on all the Churches and the Nigerian citizens to repent corporately so that the ugly situation that has marred the land be averted as was done during the period of Prophet Jona.
Abraham Dimeus said that,”I call on Church leaders and our adherents to keep praying until this problem of kidnapping, armed banditry, Boko Haram militants, poverty, cultism, political crisis, land disputes and all their cohorts seized. God is watching the Church and also depending on the Church to proffer solution to our lingering challenges through prayers. We should therefore pray without ceasing”.
The CAN Chairman then challenged Christians in Bauchi state for abandoning the completion of the CAN center started 15 years ago saying, “The Church in Bauchi, we have seen what is our Secretariat today. How do you feel about this symbol of the Church? Are we happy of seeing this wall as it is? I beg you all in the Name of God to do something prayerfully to see that we come out of this disgrace”.
He then commended the State Governor, Sen Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir for the love he has shown to the Church in the state, for providing a new site for Christian cemetery as well as promised to complete the Secretariat project.
The one day prayer rally was tagged, ‘Come let’s rebuild the Broken Wall’ with the text taken from the book of Nehemiah chapter 2 verse 17. The representative of the Governor later planted a commemorative trees within the center.
