The Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA has congratulated Muslims in the Senatorial district and across Nigeria on this year’s commemoration of Eid-el-Kabir festival.
In a goodwill message personally signed by the Senator on Monday, 19 July, 2021 in Lagos, Senator Abiru called for religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence among Nigerians stressing that divisive and incendiary rhetoric capable of overheating the polity and causing ethnic strife should be shunned.
Senator Abiru urged Nigerians to be unrelented in prayers at this critical time in the nation’s history.
“The support and prayers of all well-meaning citizens of this great country is required as leaders battle security, economic and other challenges confronting the nation”, Abiru noted in his Sallah message.
The lawmaker also drew the attention of the residents of the Lagos East Senatorial District and the entire Lagosians to the recent spike in COVID-19 cases in the state urging Muslims and non-muslims to adhere to COVID-19 safety protocol as they merry during the Eid-El-Kabir festivity.
Abiru finally urged Lagosians across 377 wards in the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs in Lagos State to come out en masse to vote the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates during local government elections on Saturday, 24 July, 2021.
