President Bola Tinubu, on Monday met with the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, at the state house, Abuja.
This is the first meeting of the year between the president and the Christian organization.
Details of the discussions are yet to be disclosed as of press time.
The meeting is coming days after the president hosted the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, SCSN, at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
After the meeting, the SCSN called on Tinubu to expedite action to cushion the effects of his administration’s economic policies.
Addressing State House correspondents after the meeting, Vice President of the SCSN Dr Bashir Umar said the group also called for the deployment of resources to combat threat to national security.
“We are here today on courtesy call to the President and to show our solidarity and commendation for the hard decisions he is taking for the country.
“And also to request that he expedite action to cushion the effect of the hard economic decisions that were taken and also to request that he brings out everything that is in the arsenal to face the problem of Insecurity and to also achieve food security.
“We also submitted to him the communiqué of our just concluded conference which brought about Islamic scholars and academics, intellectuals and civil society organizations to make a post mortem of 2023 elections in order to create a consensus and the way forward.
“We got very good assurances from the President and very encouraging remarks that calls for us to continue to pray intensely for the success of the administration and for peace and security and development of the country which we have been doing and we are intensifying our prayers for the leadership of the country”, he said.
