Nigeria: Yuguda Urges Nigerians to Pray for Solution Against Insurgency

9 June 2014

The Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda, has again appealed to Nigerians to put aside politics and their differences and pray for the Nigerian leadership to have unusual tact, courage, wisdom and understanding to tackle the current insurgency in the country.

Yuguda told journalists in an interview in Abuja at the weekend that with the increasing threats to the unity and stability of the country, what well-meaning Nigerians could do now "is to pray together and rally round President Goodluck Jonathan to successfully steer the ship of the country at this critical moment. According to him, it was now clear that the present insurgency in the country was a common enemy to all Nigerians irrespective of tribe, creed, class, region or religion, state or status, maintaining that not even the sex, age or political party of any Nigerian means anything to the insurgents.

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