The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has declared Jan. 10 as National Day of Prayers for peaceful, free, fair and credible elections.
President of the Association, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, who announced this on Saturday, in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Adebayo Oladeji, in Abuja, also declared the date as day of freedom for Leah Sharibu and others in the captivity of the Boko Haram terrorist group.
The Reverend gentleman said that prayer meetings would be held in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m explaining that the programme was to seek for God’s intervention in preventing violence, manipulation, intimidation of voters and other electoral crimes in the forthcoming general elections.
He directed all bloc chairmen, zonal chairmen, states and local chairmen, and all church leaders, to mobilise their members nationwide for the programme.
The prayer meeting is scheduled to take place at the National Christian Centre, Abuja, the statement said.
It read: “All State Chairmen, all denominational leaders and Christian candidates who cannot make it to Abuja, especially those who are contesting for state assembly or governorship posts, are to attend the programme at the state level.
“We are to pray for all Christians contesting for one post or the other for the will of God to be done concerning their ambition; and that the powerful in our nation will not be able to manipulate the election and edge them out.
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“That all captives in the den of the terrorists like Leah Sharibu and the Chibok girls should be set free immediately.
“That the general elections should be free, fair, credible, and without violence or any bloodshed.
“That God should use the process to give the country good and Godly leaders at all levels; and that every evil plan against Nigeria be frustrated.
“’That God should stop all groups behind the killings in Nigeria and their financiers and that 2019 should be a new dawn for Nigeria.”
Ayokunle appealed to all Churches and all Christians in the country to participate in the programme with a view to ushering the country into a new era of peace, unity, safety and all round prosperity.
