JNI urges Muslims to pray against those plotting evil in forthcoming elections

The Jama’atu Nasril Islam has called on all Muslims in the country to pray against those plotting evil during the forthcoming general elections.
A statement issued on Tuesday by JNI Secretary General, Dr Khalid Aliyu, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna, said the call became imperative in view of “grave uncertainties’’ as the elections draw near.
It said: “This call has become inevitable because prayers remain the most powerful instrument upon which we beseech Allah for His intervention in dealing with evil plotters, as well as Satan himself.
“Likewise, we call on all Muslim brethren to see it as a point of duty to always include the 2019 General Elections in their respective daily supplications to Allah, for hitch free general elections, not minding the provocative utterances of the political gladiators.
“We nonetheless call on politicians to be mannered and avoid hate speeches as well as all violent tendencies, seeing that responsible conduct of campaign is a panacea in ushering responsible leadership.’’
The JNI particularly directed Imams across the country to offer the Alqunut, a special prayer against all forms of calamities, when they lead the five daily compulsory prayers, to ensure peaceful polls.
It added: “The call for prayer has inexorably become necessary because nothing is as honourable before Allah as prayer. For whoever, to whom the door of prayer is opened, will have his prayers answered.’’