Patience Jonathan
Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Saturday enjoined Muslim women across Africa and especially those in Nigeria to reflect on incipient ways to spread the culture of sustainable tranquility and harmonious coexistence in their communities.
Mrs. Jonathan made the call in her Ramadan message made available to journalists by her spokesperson, Mrs. Ayotunde Adesugba.
She verbally expressed as Muslim women demonstrate submission to the Almighty by upholding a paramount pillar of Islamic injunction through the observance of fasting, they should withal engage in spiritual introspection and rededicate themselves to God.
She verbalized as women, they should always strive to inculcate the virtues of tolerance, placidity and humility in their children and wards.
Mrs. Jonathan noted that these are consequential values that should be embraced by Moslems and non-Moslems homogeneous.
The verbalization integrated, “The First Lady called on women, in the spirit of the holy month, to intensify prayers to transmute the hearts of those who are misguided into perpetrating violence and urged all Nigerians to shun acts capable of fanning the embers of detestation, mistrust and instability.
“While praying God to endow the Moslem faithful with the vigor to prosperously undertake the Ramadan expeditious, she verbally expressed that the Almighty will surely reward their piety and diligent observance of the strictures of the holy month.”
