Obasanjo, Sultan, Abdulsalami convene meeting to discuss pressing national issues
The Interfaith Initiatives for Peace has convened a meeting to discuss pressing national issues in the country.
The group is jointly led by former president Olusegun Obasanjo, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammed Sa’ad Abubakar II, former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, and former Catholic Arch Bishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan.
The meeting, scheduled to hold on June 10, at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja, is expected to discuss such issues as national unity, security, peace, integration, economic revitalization and development.
Organizers of the meeting said in a letter addressed to president of Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, “I am pleased to invite you on behalf on Interfaith Initiatives for Peace, jointly led by the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar and His Eminence John Cardinal Onaiyekan, national peace committee chaired by General Abdusalami Abubakar and Socio-cultural Consultative Committee convened by me and all these bodies called Committee of Goodness of Nigeria, CGN, to an exploratory meeting on pressing issues of national unity, security, peace, integration, economic revitalization and development, women and youth welfare and general progress”.
Obasanjo, had on Sunday, asked Nigerians to cry for a solution to th security crisis plaguing the country.
“We seem to have been overwhelmed and unsure of how to handle the crisis in our land. But nothing is too difficult for God to do. That is why we are here.
“We have some challenges. These are beyond what we can handle. We have to cry out to God to help us”, he had said.
The former president had also said at a separate forum that the security of Nigeria laid in Nigerians and asked them to be committed to efforts t surmount the insecurity in the country.
