"Pray instead of trekking for Buhari", Aide tells youths!

a trekker from Borno state.

                                              

Alhaji Mohammed Shehu, an aide to President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has advised youths to pray instead of trekking for the incoming leader’s administration.

Shehu gave this advice during interview  in Abuja on Monday.

According to him, the incoming administration acknowledges the excitement of youths over Buhari’s election but would prefer that they channel their energies towards praying than embarking on, sometimes dangerous, journeys.

`It’s kind of overwhelming. Last week, I told youths to stay where they are, stop trekking, and pray for the incoming administration instead.`We have a lot of challenges; light, unemployment, insecurity, and so on.

`So it is more profitable for them to stay where they are and pray instead of taking the dangerous risk of walking all the way to Abuja’’, Shehu said.The only female among the group of 22, Lauratu Musa, said she took off from Kaduna eight days ago with her 15 year-old son, Adamu Abdullahi.

`I collected 28 goodwill letters from the various villages I lodged in on my way. This is my son, he was bitten on the way by plenty mosquitoes but we thank God we are here’’, she said.
Alhaji Bulama Mustapha, the Deputy Chaiman of APC in Damaturu, told said on the telephone that the Youth Leader, Musbau Mohammed, “rode his bicycle from Damaturu.

`He had said from beginning that if Buhari won the election, he would ride to wherever he was to greet him and I kept in touch with him on phone all the way.’’

The trekkers, 22 in all, cut across various ages ranging from 20 to 63, and came from different parts of the country including Katsina, Kano, Adamawa, Yobe, Anambra and Kaduna States. (NAN).

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