Fast and Pray against Break-up of Nigeria – National Assembly

Senator Barnabas Germade has adviced Nigerians to pray against the disintegration of Nigeria. Germade who is also the president of the National Prayer breakfast urged Nigerians to embrace patriotism and free enterprise in order to help Nigeria get off the brink of break-up.

Speaking at a media parley on Wednesday morning, Germade in the company of other members of the Christian legislators’ Fellowship of the National assembly said;

“The Nigerian Prayer Breakfast took its cue from the American Prayer Breakfast which President Dwight Eisenhower began in 1953.Eisenhower had stated after his election in 1952 that America needed spiritual renewal, for Eisenhower, faith, patriotism and free enterprise were the fundamentals of a strong nation.

In the same vein, the Nigerian prayer Breakfast is regarded as an opportunity to seek the Lord’s guidance and re-dedication of Nigeria and her people in re-alignment with God’s purposes.

God’s willing on Thursday 26th October this year, the National Prayer Breakfast would be at its 8th year running. May I seize this opportunity to remind us that, since the past seven years, our political and socio-economic landscape has been characterized by threats which have both regional and international implications.

To Nigerians those years could have seen our dear country emerge stronger from the shocks and effects of global economic crisis, we have however weathered these storms; we are at present a reflection of a country at the brinks”, Gemade said.