The Seventh Day Adventist Church in Nigeria has appealed to the government to respect their worship day by not fixing elections or national examinations on those days.
The President, Northern Nigeria Union Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Pastor Yohanna Harry has said that conducting elections and examinations on these days means denying their members from exceeding their civic right to worship.
Speaking to newsmen in Minna after its North Central Nigeria Men Conference at Brighter International School, Harry said government need to put them into consideration and stop disenfranchising them.
“Nigerians have the freedom of worship, they are supposed to be free to worship the way they want. It has become a thing of concern to our members to worship as our day of Sabbath is usually the day in which political elections are fixed. Read more