KOGI STATE: DECLARES PUBLIC HOLIDAY TO JUBILATE BUHARI RETURN

KOGI STATE: DECLARES PUBLIC HOLIDAY TO JUBILATE BUHARI RETURN

  Kogi State government has declared Monday as a public holiday for citizens to thank God for safe return of President Muhammadu Buhari to the country.

  The Director -General, media and publicity to the state governor, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, said the holiday would enable the people to give thanks to God for returning Buhari in sound health and sound mind.

  He said that decision was also in line with the support the people had been giving to Buhari in his efforts at correcting the ills of the past and putting the nation on sound economic footing.

  “ We urge the people to also use the occasion of the public holiday to pray for Mr. President as he resumes his responsibilities of repositioning Nigeria, “ he said.

   He quoted the state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, as thanking the people for standing by the President   while undergoing treatment in London and for trooping to Abuja to welcome the him.

  The return of Buhari has also been described as soothing balm on the tensed atmosphere in the country.

  A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in the South, Chief Segun Oni, APC’s Deputy National Chairman (South), said in a statement on Sunday.

Source: Ibukun Josephine Bankole