President Muhammadu Buhari will lead his Eid prayer with his family at home.
A presidential associate, Garba Shehu, in an announcement gave on Friday, said the activity was in recognition of the lockdown quantifies in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, set up “to save lives and protect people from all dangers.”
He said the activity was likewise in accordance with the mandate of the Sultan of Sokoto and President General of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III suspending Eid congregational petitions the nation over just as the convention against mass social event gave by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.
He said President Buhari who had generally imparted the cheerful second to top government authorities, political pioneers, community heads, Muslim and Christian religion leaders and children, would not be receiving these homages in a bid to stop the coronavirus from further spreading.
