Easter : Remember Security Personnel, Less Privileged, Atiku Urges Nigerians

• Atiku urges Nigerians to remember security personnel, victims of terrorism and the less privileged in the country during the Easter season.
• He says “we will die to challenges and live to our potentials.

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate in the just concluded election,  has urged Nigerians to remember security personnel, victims of terrorism and the less privileged in the country during the Easter season.

Abubakar in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital noted that  “Jesus Christ is a compassionate friend to all”. “Even as we celebrate, I urge all Nigerians to remember the men and women of our armed forces, who are even right now in ditches and trenches in order to keep us safe.”

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He urged Nigerians to also spare a thought to those who have suffered at the hands of terrorists, marauders and criminals as a new Nigeria is being birthed, which he described as a Nigeria of possibilities instead of impossibilities.

“Suffice to say that Jesus Christ (Nabi Isa) is a compassionate friend to all who are weary and heavy laden, and as we celebrate His resurrection, let us also remember the less privileged in our midst,” he said.

The former Vice President described Easter as a time of the resurrection and “of dying to what was imperfect and reawakening to what is perfect”.

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While noting that this is the message of hope which the season is all about., Atiku said Nigeria is going through difficult times, but Easter gives Nigerians hope that as a nation, and “we will die to challenges and live to our potentials.

“We will die to extreme poverty and live to extra and prosperity. We will die to strife and be united in life.”

He, therefore, urged Nigerians to also thank God for the fact that the people remain as one nation under God, saying that where there is unity, there is much hope.

“It is with this in mind that I wish the body of Christ and all Nigerians a happy Easter. May God bless us all and may God bless Nigeria,” he said.