RAMADAN; PANPIEC PARTNERS WITH MUSLIM CLERICS, REACTS TO T.B JOSHUA'S RECENT CLAIMS ON COVID-19.

Pan Nigeria Presidency of Igbo Extraction Coalition - PANPIEC the parent body of all pressure groups championing for an Igbo to occupy Aso Rock seat in 2023 has felicitated with Muslim faithfuls on this year's Ramadan. In a statement issued on April 25, 2020, the director of media and publicity of PANPIEC, Prince Erondu Uche congratulated all Muslims and advised them to pray for God's intervention against the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the entire world.

Prince Erondu appreciated the decision of Muslim leaders for this year's Ramadan lectures to be held online in order to curtail the spread of coronavirus. The PANPIEC Spokesman said that their members worldwide have been mobilized to partner and support relevant authorities to make sure that the online lectures are held even in remote areas.

In another development Prince Erondu Uche has reacted to Rev. T. B Joshua's claim on covid-19. The man of God was quoted to have said that Christians can contact coronavirus. In a recently published news by The News Guru (TNG) an online news media house, he was quoted to have said that Christians are not excluded from contacting the deadly virus and a Christian contacting it does not mean that he or she is not a child of God or not in right standing with God.

In his reaction the PANPIEC Spokesman supported T.B Joshua's assertion, saying that hundreds of men of God have died in Italy and around the globe including a Bishop in America as a result of the covid-19 pandemic. He further advised Christians to maintain social distancing until the pandemic is over. He thanked Christian and Muslim Clerics for their support in combating the virus. He also advocated for the support of all religions in the search and election of a Pan Nigeria President of Igbo Extraction come 2023 saying that such individual among other things will promote religious tolerance.