President
Jonathan has appealed to Nigerians to pray more for the
President-elect, Buhari and the incoming government to ensure they
succeed and not make costly mistakes that might have adverse effect on
Nigeria. He made the appeal while speaking at the Thanksgiving and
Inauguration service which held yesterday in Abuja.
"I
thank you for the support and I will call on you to pray for us who are
leaving, because probably today is the last day I will speak to you
here as the President of Nigeria. But you should even pray more for the
incoming government because we are now trying to manage our private
businesses while they are coming to manage the whole country.
So
they require more prayers because I can make a mistake and it will
affect me, but if they make a mistake, it will affect the whole nation.
So I call on all of you and all religious bodies to pray for the
incoming government to succeed because all what we want as a nation,
both Nigerians at home and abroad, is for good government, prosperity,
unity and peace. We cannot achieve that without the help of God. I am
quite pleased today we are here not to celebrate disintegration of this
country, but we are celebrating the unity of this country. We are here
not for service for mass burial, but we are here having service to
inaugurate the new incoming government. This being possible because of
men and women like you who have been here praying for the country. God
has designed everything” he said.
