Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has charged the state’s contingent to the holy pilgrimage to pray for the progress of the state and Nigeria as a whole.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, in a statement, said that the Governor said this when he visited the pilgrims in the early hours of today as the state’s last batch was set to fly to Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage.
The Governor prayed to God to accept the Hajj rites of the intending pilgrims who he urged to be good ambassadors of the state. The head of the state’s contingent, Alhaji L’Azizi Jimoh, thanked AbdulRazaq for the visit which he described as the first of such by any Governor of the state.
A total of 2,026 persons are performing the holy pilgrimage from Kwara in 2019. Wednesday’s flight — involving 365 pilgrims — was the last from the state as the world prepares for the annual religious rites.
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