The Ancient Religious Societies of African Descendants International Council (ARSADIC) says it will hold a unique prayer session for the country and President Bola Tinubu during this year’s Osun-Osogbo festival. 

The president of ARSADIC, Ifagbenusola Atanda, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. 

Mr Atanda said the prayer would hold on August 8 at the peak of the 14-day annual Osun-Osogbo festival.

According to him, Nigeria and its leaders deserve support through prayers, especially during occasions like the Osun-Osogbo festival when the deity visits to bless her children.

Mr Atanda said council members had been summoned to deliberate on the special prayer session, ahead of this year’s annual festival edition.

He said ARSADIC, which had been a platform for indigenous African spirituality since its creation in 1795, would not shirk its responsibility to play its spiritual mandate during events like the annual Osun Osogbo festival.

He recalled that the Osun-Osogbo sacred groove, where numerous impactful and spiritual activities usually take place during the grand finale, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2005.

This recognition, he said, was granted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

(NAN)