A special prayer session has been held for Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo and the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) — as the party seeks re-election bid this year.
Held in the Ashanti Region, the party’s stronghold, the event brought together Islamic clerics, chiefs, youth of Zongo Communities in the Kumasi metropolis and some government officials.
The event was an Annual Quranic Recitation and Islamic Prayers for the NPP government and was organized by Alhaji Ali Suraj, a former NPP Organizer in the USA Chapter,
Speaking to journalists, Alhaji Ali Suraj said the New Patriotic Party is delivering on all key promises it made to Zongo Communities ahead of the 2016 elections.
He said the Akufo-Addo government, after assuming office in 2017, has demonstrated that it was the best to serve the interests of Zongo Communities contrary to the long-held view that the NPP was anti-Zongo.
Alhaji Suraj said he was confident that Zongo Communities across the country would massively endorse the NPP in the 2020 polls, describing yhe party’s achievements in Zongo Communities as unprecedented.
“We the Zongo youth are now fully convinced that the NPP belongs to the Zongo Communities considering the massive achievement of this government in our communities”, he said.
Sheikh Harun, a Muslim cleric, underlined the need for Ghanaians to live in harmony and commit themselves to a peaceful election in 2020, saying that there should be no room for any form of violence.
He said as religious leaders, it was their responsibility to pray for any government to succeed in improving the lives of the masses to make society a better place to live.
Led by the Ashanti Regional Chief Imam, Sheikh Abdul-Moumin Harun, special prayers were said for the President, Ministers and other government appointees after the full recitation of the Holy Quran.
The event, according to organizers would be replicated across the country in the coming days.
By Jonathan Ofori, Daily Mail GH
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