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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says a new Nigeria is in the making, and that it is covered by a cloud that will eventually pass.

He said there is a need for collective prayers, faith, hope and action, adding that Nigeria will prevail over its challenges.

The VP spoke at the national prayer breakfast which held in Abuja on Friday.

Osinbajo noted that the theme of the prayer breakfast, ‘Birth of a New Nation’, was significant, given the challenges in the country.

In a statement released by Laolu Akande, media aide of Osinbajo, the VP was quoted as saying the prayer breakfast “comes at a time of great travail and tribulation for the nation: in the throes of a pandemic for well over a year, leading to a severe economic downturn, loss of jobs and livelihoods; and as we climbed out of the recession, we have been faced with an unprecedented scale of insecurity, in different zones of the nation.

“But we know that every time that a nation where the lives of the children of God is challenged, it is God’s call to His people to take action.

“It is an opportunity for God to demonstrate that He is God over the nations, that He is the creator of the heavens and the earth, that He knows the beginning from the end. But God also wants us to know that He has ordained us to speak to life.

“The new nation is birthing already. It is covered by a cloud, but the cloud will pass, and God Almighty will take all of the glory for the birthing of a new nation.

“As we are the salt, we are also the light, the light ends the darkness; it marks the end of the night of weeping and marks the glorious sunlight of the morning of joy.  So, the pouring of the salt into the source of the water, the source of the problem, is the prophetic act we perform today.

“We, the salt, are also poured today by prayer and prophecy, to the source of our nation’s problems.  And as we pray and prophesy, a new nation will be birthed; one where, like the city to which Elisha went, the land was healed, the people prospered and peace and joy prevailed.”

The VP thanked organisers of the programme, as well as the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), and Yakubu Gowon, former head of state, whom he described as the “father of the Nigerian Prays movement”.