Sinatu Ojikutu, Nigeria’s first elected female deputy governor, has declared October 23, the day she turns 80, as a day of fasting, prayers, and sobriety to seek divine intervention against global hardship.
In a statement on Sunday, Ojikutu said she received a “strong revelation” urging the world to humble itself through fasting and prayers to reduce the economic hardship affecting some nations.
She said the situation has become dire, with “acute hardship biting harder”, and called on leaders to act selflessly while citizens seek God’s guidance.
“The message from God is coming to me very strong that there’s need to humble ourselves through fasting and prayers to ameliorate the suffering in the land,” Ojikutu said.
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“It’s not only in Nigeria, it’s across the world. See what’s happening in America now.”
Ojikutu, who served as Lagos deputy governor between 1992 and 1993, said she will be in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, on her birthday to offer prayers for mercy and peace.
She urged her well-wishers to channel their gifts towards helping the needy.
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“My birthday request to all who want to gift me is that all such gifts be converted to feasting the deprived and less privileged around them and to share the pictures with me as my birthday gifts,” she added.
Ojikutu said global suffering could worsen if people fail to seek divine help, warning that “the wave of hardship across the globe would bite harder in the days ahead unless we fast and pray to avert it”.
The octogenarian, who previously claimed to have received a divine warning about the health of former President Muhammadu Buhari between 2016 and 2018, said this new revelation calls for “a collective return to God” to avert looming crises.
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