CAN Calls For Intensified Prayers Ahead Of Saturday’s Polls

The leadership of the Christian Association Of Nigeria (CAN), has appealed to all Christians in the country and those in the Diaspora to pray for Nigeria ahead of Saturday’s rescheduled general elections.

In a statement by its President, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, CAN directed its members to begin a Prayer Programme from Tuesday, February 19, 2019, and end on Sunday, February 24, 2019, for the success of the rescheduled elections.

He described the current political scene in the country as not being ordinary, adding that there was the need for the Church to intercede for the country.

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“I want you to pray very well this week against some evil forces that are plotting against the election. If it’s about the things we see in the spirit, I am not sure that elections will hold at all.

“We should rise up and ask for a transparent, free, fair and credible election that will even be better than those of 2015,” the CAN president pleaded.

He urged Christians to prevail on God not to allow the elections to result in war or bring hardship and suffering unto the citizens, and there would not be a further postponement of the polls.

“It is our prayers that this will be the last time INEC will toy with any postponement again. It is reprehensible, unacceptable, condemnable, ungodly and a national embarrassment and never again will Nigeria be subjected to this kind of rude shock of international proportion.

Among other prayer points, the CAN president also asked that prayers be offered for the deliverance of Leah Sharibu, who was kidnapped by terrorists from her school, Government Girls Science and Technical Secondary School in Dapchi, Adamawa State on the night of February 19, 2018.