The Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, has known as for prayers and supplication for Nigeria as Christians have fun this 12 months’s Christmas to commemorate the start of Jesus Christ.
In his Christmas greeting to Christians on Sunday, the Speaker famous that Jesus Christ had a humble starting earlier than changing into a worldwide and generational phenomenon.
He mentioned it behoves on Nigerians to emulate the virtues of Jesus Christ, which he mentioned had been love, sacrifice, peace making, tolerance, constructing consensus among the many folks, selflessness, amongst others.
Abbas additionally urged Nigerians to mirror on the present state of affairs of the nation as they have fun Christmas, with the hope of a larger future.
Whereas urging prayers for the success of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration, the Speaker charged residents to proceed to assist their political, non secular and conventional leaders within the journey for a protected and affluent nation.
“Allow us to use this event to ponder on the problems affecting our every day lives as a nation and the way we will finest tackle them, each as leaders and followers, the federal government and the ruled.
“As a folks, we now have come a great distance. Subsequently, we should always proceed to unite and stay one. Let’s proceed to hope and assist our leaders. Let’s emulate the lifetime of Jesus Christ and imbibe his teachings, which had been about love and sacrifice,” he mentioned.