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You just don’t know how to shake these feelings and they are starting to interfere with everything else in your life. You think you should be able to handle things, but most of the time you feel overwhelmed and stressed, anxious or depressed. Or maybe you find yourself in the same old patterns and ending up in the same place over and over.
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Even the most welcome of changes come with their fair share of challenges. Maybe you are going through a transition, like ending a relationship, having a baby, or starting a new career. You want to feel in control, but you’ve lost your sense of balance. “The SDP uses this special occasion to encourage Nigerians that there is yet, hope in the horizon for national retrieval.No one ever said that this is what life would be like. “Nigeria is a work in progress, like all other nations of the world, and all hands must therefore be on deck in building and shaping the great country and Nigerian society of our dreams. “As we celebrate, we are hereby called upon, to prioritize support and hope-giving to the less privileged members of the Nigerian community, while attuning our minds and souls to the greater works of nation-building that confront us. “The hard fact and reality of the matter is that we have no place to call our own country, except Nigeria, where as citizens, we played no role or had no power of influence when the Creator was creating us individuals and placing us by His choice, in the places of our birth, in our tribes, religions and cultures in this particular geographical space called our Nigeria which it pleased Him to place us. “As such, we must work together beyond our political, ethnic, regional and religious fault-lines, and unitedly stand strong together and collaboratively, to find solutions to the problems that are besetting us as a nation. “Nonetheless, we must as individuals and as a collective, deliberately get resolute in forging a common front to combat our national challenges, while launching into the deep of our soul as a people to draw strength to survive these tempestuous times. “Sadly, and undeniably, our country is today in great despair, state of disorder, and is completely under a seemingly overwhelming siege of terror, and we are faced with multi-faceted socio-economic and political crises that threaten our national stability. “We owe it to ourselves to work for the good of the nation, to build a nation that is run on social justice and freedom of all citizens, and to promote the very best of ideals for the greater number of the people and society. “It is therefore on the foregoing noble understanding and philosophy of life, that our great party, the SDP as a national party that promotes the true interest of Nigeria, uses this opportunity to call on all Nigerian compatriots, home and abroad, the leaders and the led, to imbibe the noble ideals of one humanity and love for country and the promotion of it’s true interests. Gabam called on “Leaders at all levels – secular and religious must be conscious of the fact that leadership is a sacred trust, and a big responsibility, and that we all owe it to God that we shall one day, be made to account to Him on the day of judgement. He urged leadersto “take advantage of this special period of Ed-El-Kabir to recognize the God-factor in the human affairs, and therefore resolve to work to forge a common bond of humanity, as well as harp on the imperative of engendering and promoting human dignity, a good Nigerian society, and the unity of the nation.” He however said as mere mortals subject to the supremacy of the Creator and at His mercy, leaders must be mindful that “we have no powers of our own, and that whatever we are today, rich, poor, powerful, people of influence or affluence, or whether we are in one positions of authority or the other which we may occupy, is due to the beneficence and graciousness of the Almighty God. “Forgive our sins and grant us favour in everything we do, And never forsake us in this world and hereafter. In a message to make the Eid-el Kabir, in Abuja, National Chairman Shehu Gabam prayed “on this day of ARAFAT, accept our sacrifice, never let our hearts be disturbed by the trials of life, open the doors of Your mercy to us, ease our ways of life, accept our worship.