The Governor of Niger State, Mr Abubakar Bello, has urged intending pilgrims to the Holy Land of Jerusalem to ask God for spiritual theory that will help the country out of its present challenges.
Governor Bello while addressing the 218 pilgrims on Tuesday at the State Pilgrims Board asked them to intercede for Niger State and the country at large.
Mr Bello, who was represented by the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr Jonathan Vatsa, told the pilgrims before their departure that Nigeria was economically, politically and socially sick.
“You are not going there for site-seeing. All the theories to revamp the economy have failed, but the spiritual theory will not fail us. That is why you are going there to pray for God’s intervention especially this time that the country is going through a lot of challenges.
“The land we are standing is economically, politically and socially sick.
“Go to the holy land and intercede for Nigeria. Be good Ambassadors and pray for stability in the nation’s economy and pray against insecurity,” he said.
Also, the Chairman of the Niger State Pilgrims Board Commission, Justice Ndatsu Ndagi, asked intending pilgrims to remain good ambassadors and shun any idea of absconding.
“You are going there to pray for the State and the country. Always do the right thing so that whatever money spent will not go in vein.
“To abscond is not the charter establishing pilgrim. Follow and obey the laws of the land,” he said.