Some Christian and Muslim clerics have embarked on a 30-day prayer and fasting to seek God’s intervention in the nation’s political sphere ahead of the 2019 general election. National Chairman, United Christian Leaders Eagle Eyes Forum, Pastor Aminchi Habu, told newsmen in Abuja that the prayer and fasting was for God to help Nigerians make the right choice during elections. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the 30-day special prayer and fasting which started on April 16 would end on May 16. “This country needs someone who is fit intellectually, someone new and fresh, young and bold, somehow courageous who has not been corrupt by the present evil system that has been going on in this country. According to him, arrangement has been made to pick a consensus candidate before June whom the forum will support in 2019.

Source: Punch April 19, 2018 15:33 UTC