Buhari, World Leaders Observe Juma’at Prayer at Makkah Mosque

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday observed Juma’at prayer at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, with about 53 world leaders and hundreds of thousands of Muslim faithful.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the President and the heads of state and governments are in the Holy City for the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in a statement said Buhari would join other world leaders at the 14th session of the Summit Conference of the OIC hosted by Custodian of the two holy mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at the conference which will commence at midnight.

Shortly on his arrival in Makkah Thursday evening, President Buhari, accompanied by the Governors of Osun, Niger and Jigawa, performed the Umrah.

“The president and the accompanying delegation circumambulated the Ka’aba before visiting the area between the al-Marwah and al-Safa hills, itself a distance of between three and four kilometres in the Grand Mosque, which is part of the Umrah process,” the presidency said in statement.

Buhari, who is expected to return to Abuja after the OIC summit tomorrow, would hold bilateral meetings with some world leaders on margin of the OIC summit.

Yawnaija