April 11, 2024
The spiritual leader, Soul Makers Ministry World Wide, High Chief Owolabi Salis has advised President Bola Tinubu on the need for him to brace up with far-reaching reformational policies capable of lifting the nation from the doldrum.
In a special statement to the president at the ceremony marking the end of the annual two-week fasting of the group, known as Moonlight Fasting, the spiritual leader, who is a US-based Lawyer and politician said that the crucial task becomes not only important but also necessary to salvage the poor from the yoke of poverty, misery and squalor.
“By now Nigeria should be in a hurry to catch up with leading nations of the world in keeping pace with the trend of modernity,” said the Ikorodu-born politician who in 2019, contested for governorship on the platform of Alliance For Democracy.
“The entire blacks all over the world, and Africans in particular, look up to Nigeria as the nation encompassing the largest concentration of blacks in Africa and the diaspora, to live up to the billings of our founding fathers, who envisioned a great nation which will rub shoulders with the superpowers in the comity of nations,” said the Lawyer-politician, popularly known as “Oba Mekunu” (King of the poor) of Nigeria and New York, because of his immense humanitarian propensity for the underprivileged.
According to High Chief Salis, the two-week annual fasting often commences two weeks to the end of Ramadan with a celebration which coincides the same day, with the end of the Ramadan
“A unique feature of the exercise is that adherents are allowed to take water in the course of fasting because air and water are the spirits of the body and food of the soul. Fasting against water is therefore forbidden because it’s like fasting against the air you breathe,” Salis stated further.
