By Robert Mbeyi
Visibly worried by the discordant vibrations from the polity, President Goodluck Jonathan has been advised to declare three days of national retreat for fasting and prayers.
The executive action has become mandatory because the outcome of the distant 2015 Presidential poll is now heating the polity acrimoniously, fuelling dormant but explosive ethnic and regional sentiments.
Paquada E.S.Uba (Bishop) (Shalom) and President Association of Jewish Faith in Nigeria and Union of Jewish Synagogues in the country bared his mind on these issues in a press interview at his Amawire headquarters, Orji, Owerri.
He said he was inspired to make the declaration that the current restiveness in the polity can be spiritually addressed.
The bishop noted that the collective supplication will humbly position the country’s socio – political problems before the Creator for his fatherly intervention and redemption.
He recalled the biblical prescription within one of the most difficult and stressful periods in the Jewish history, that priests and ministers of God should assemble in tears and petition Elohim to intervene on their well – being and forestall the looming calamity on the land and the plea was heeded.
Full of foreboding that no country has ever survived a second civil war, bishop Uba called on the various religious denominations to regard the troubled polity and the festering state of insecurity in parts of the country as a spiritual challenge.
He declared “our priests, ministers and other members of the religious community should prostrate and go down on their knees to commit the well – being of Nigeria and its people into the unsleeping eyes of Elohim the Creator who never fails his children”.
