Muslim Council of Nigeria (MCON) has urged Nigerians to pray for the new administration, while tasking President Bola Tinubu to concentrate on tackling the security challenges across the country and creating job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth.
The Chief Imam of MCON, Alhaji Imam Ahmed Aluko, who made the call in his Sallah message after leading the Eid-el-Adha prayer at Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna on Wednesday, said the Tinubu administration should also provide the people with electricity to enable Nigerians live a comfortable life and ensure that small and medium scale ventures can effectively power their businesses.
“The significance of the Eid-el-Adha prayer is to show that whenever we make a promise, we must fulfil it,” he said.
Aluko, who is also the Chief Imam of Nawair-ud-Deen Society, Kaduna, “according to Prophet Ibrahim (ASW), he promised Allah that if Allah give him a son he will sacrifice the son to Allah. Then Allah gave him a son and he forgot his promise. Allah reminded him and he made to sacrifice the son before Allah replaced the don with a ram. It shows that Islam is the best religion.
“Muslims, Yorubas, Hausas, Nupes, Ebiras all gathered here to pray, to show appreciation to Allah for what He has done for us and for not making us to sacrifice our sons to Him. The leaders made promises to us during their campaigns, they should fulfil their promises to the people.
“President Tinubu should concentrate on one, security of the country, they should secure the people and the land. Secondly, they have to give us electricity, the third is economy. We have millions of graduates from universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, who are unemployed. They have to provide job for them. Unemployment caused the insecurity across the country, if there is job, there would be less insecurity and less security challenges.”
Also speaking, the Chief Imam of Ansar-ud-Deen Society, Kaduna branch, Alhaji AbdulAzeez Kijan, said Eid-el-Adha prayer is what Muslims have to do if they didn’t go to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj exercise.
He however advised Muslims to, “show, at all times, that we are Muslims in our acts, attitude and behaviours. We must always behave in a way that would make people around us want to emulate us”.