Troubled
by President Muhammadu Buhari's state of health, the president of
Guinea has ordered 24 hours prayer for Nigeria's leader.
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Alpha Conde
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Alpha Condé, the Guinean President, asked all Muslims in the
country to hold a 24-hour prayer for President Muhammadu Buhari on
Friday.
According to The Punch, 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 afterwards 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 per cent are
traditionalists.
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.
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