The former Lagos State Deputy Governor, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, has announced that October 23, 2025, the day she turns 80, will be observed as a day of fasting, prayer, and sobriety, calling for global supplication for survival and sustenance.
Ojikutu also urged that the day be dedicated to showing love and compassion to the deprived and less privileged in society.
In a statement marking her milestone birthday, she said a divine revelation impressed upon her the importance of collective fasting and prayers to mitigate the hardships brought about by the global economic downturn.
She explained that the current wave of acute hardship demands that people seek God’s intervention to grant world leaders wisdom, knowledge, and understanding for selfless action, while also giving the masses discernment and a spirit of critical awareness.
Ojikutu, who plans to travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, to offer prayers for her birthday and seek Allah’s mercy, encouraged all God-fearing individuals to fast and pray on her birthday to help avert what she described as an impending global disaster.
She further advised that fasting on her birthday would be an act of humility in the current global situation. She also requested that intended birthday gifts be redirected to support the deprived and less privileged, with photos of such charitable acts shared with her as symbolic birthday presents.
“The message from God is coming to me very strongly that there is a need for us to humble ourselves through fasting and prayers to ameliorate the suffering in the land,” Ojikutu said. “It’s not only in Nigeria; it’s happening across the world. Look at what is going on in America now.”
She added, “My birthday request to all who wish to give me gifts is that such gifts should be converted to feeding and supporting the less privileged around them. Share the pictures with me as my birthday gifts.”
Ojikutu concluded that her divine revelation indicated global suffering would intensify unless people engage in fasting and prayers to avert the looming hardships.
The article was originally published on Politics Nigeria.
