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Yar’Adua: Mark calls
for 9-day special prayers
From AMOS DUNIA, Abuja
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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Senator
David Mark
•Photo: Sun News Publishing |
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President of the Senate, David Mark, on Monday at a post-morning-Mass/tea
session with members of the Knight of Saint Mulumba at the Apo Mansion
Chapel declared Novena for the quick recovery of President Umaru
Yar’Adua.
Novena is the recitation of prayers for nine consecutive days in
the Catholic church to obtain special favour from God.
This was even as Senator Mark said the decision of President Yar’Adua
to make his health status public is borne out of patriotism and
transparency that is deserving of commendation, as well as the prayers
of all well-meaning Nigerians.
The Senate president, who is the number three citizen, said from
all facts available from the Presidential team in Saudi Arabia,
President Yar’Adua was responding to treatment, adding that
he has remained in constant touch with the team.
“Since the president left for Saudi Arabia for medical checkup,
the organs of government has remained intact and functional. But
in spite of this, some Nigerians have resorted to all kind of rumours
that can neither strengthen our development processes nor guarantee
our much sought reforms. I urge you to ignore these rumour mongers
as they do not mean well for our country and her people,”
he said.
In a press statement issued by the Special Adviser to the Senate
President on Media, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, Mark called on Nigerians
to ignore those peddling rumours on the health status of President
Yar’Adua as they do not mean well for Nigeria.
Senator Mark also urged all Nigerians across religious divides to
pray for the quick recovery of President Yar’Adua rather than
allowing idle talkers to seize this moment, adding that he found
it indecorous for certain Nigerians to engage in speculative diagnosis
over the president’s prevailing state of health.
In the words of Senator Mark: “It is incredulous for any man
to wish his fellow brother dead. It is also not in our culture as
Africans to engage in such idle talks over the lives of others.
I believe the president means well for this nation and our polity.
He has demonstrated this in words and in action. I, therefore, find
it indecorous for certain Nigerians to engage in speculative diagnosis
over the president’s prevailing state of health. All these
are the handiwork of mischief-makers and I urge them to desist from
such nefarious activities,” Mark enthused.
The Senate president, who noted that this is a sober moment when
all Nigerians should engage in prayers for President Yar’Adua,
urged the members of the Apo Chapel to embark on a Novena prayer
for the quick recovery of President Yar’Adua.
Accordingly, Senator Mark urged Nigerians to ignore those he referred
to as architects of division and phantom speculations and appealed
to the people to concentrate on those things that can further strengthen
our democracy and uplift the standard of life of the ordinary man.
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