71st Birthday; Tinubu Calls For Prayers

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Kolawole Oguntayo

Editor, Fountain Newsbreaker



The President-elect, Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed that special prayers and thanksgiving service be held tomorrow, Wednesday March 29, 2023 instead of the annual birthday colloquium. 

According to the statement released from his office on Monday stated that the main and signed by Mr Tunde Rahim, the event which will held at Lagos  tomorrow shall be offered at the Central Mosque in each of the five divisions in the state including the Central Mosque, Alausa in Ikeja.

Among those who will be heading the programme are President Muhammadu Buhari and First Lady Aisha Buhari, President-elect Tinubu and his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, Vice President-elect Senator Kashim Shettima and Hajia Nana Shettima, Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu, other state governors as well as members of National and State Houses of Assembly and so on. 

According to an announcement by the organisers of the prayer sessions issued by Imam Akeem Kosoko, the session at Alausa Central Mosque will begin at 10am on Wednesday and will include delivery of sermons and reading from the Holy Quran. 

This will be the third year in recent times the birthday colloquium will not hold in deference to developments in the country. 

In 2020, the 12th edition of the colloquium marking Asíwájú's 68th birthday was put off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

And last year, the birthday symposium was also called off by Asíwájú Tinubu right at the venue of the event when news emerged of the terror attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train in which several persons died and many others abducted.

This year, the president-elect said the date, which falls within the holy month of Ramadan, should be dedicated to prayers and seeking God's guidance for him and the country as he prepares to take the reins of leadership.


From the Office of the President-elect,

Tunde Rahman

March 27, 2023.

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