Nigeria’s first elected female deputy governor, Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu, has declared October 23, 2025 – the day she turns 80 — as a day of sobriety, urging people across the world to fast and pray for survival, sustenance, and divine intervention amid global hardship.
In a statement personally signed to mark her 80th birthday, Ojikutu said the divine message came to her strongly, emphasising the need for collective prayers to reduce the suffering caused by the economic challenges across the world.
According to her, the level of hardship is deepening, and there is an urgent need to seek God’s mercy to guide world leaders towards selfless and wise decisions while granting citizens discernment and resilience.
Ojikutu, a former deputy governor of Lagos State, is expected to travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, to offer prayers and seek divine mercy ahead of her birthday.
She called on all God-fearing individuals to join in fasting and prayer on Thursday, October 23, to avert what she described as “a looming global disaster.”
She urged that all gifts meant for her birthday should instead be converted into acts of charity for the deprived and less privileged, encouraging people to share pictures of such gestures with her as their gifts.
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“The message from God is coming to me very strong that there’s a need to humble ourselves through fasting and prayers to ease the suffering in the land. It’s not only in Nigeria but across the world,” Ojikutu said. “My birthday request is that all gifts be turned into support for the deprived and less privileged. The wave of suffering across the globe, according to divine revelation, will worsen unless we fast and pray to avert it.”
It would be recalled that Alhaja Ojikutu once issued a warning, based on revelation, about the late President Muhammadu Buhari’s health during his tenure between 2016 and 2018 — a warning she said was not heeded.