Katsina State is praying for a peaceful resolution of the crisis.
Prayers were also said general peace in the state and in Nigeria.
Governor Dikko Radda, who sought support for President Tinubu and ECOWAS as they move to resolve the crisis, said: “We pray to Allah for a peaceful and amicable resolution of the crisis in Niger Republic.
“We also call on Allah to bring peace to our state and help us tackle banditry and other crimes.
“I urge us all to go back home and support President Tinubu and ECOWAS in seeing to the amicable resolution of the crisis.”
The governor also noted that President Tinubu was working to alleviate the hardships brought on poor Nigerians by the fuel subsidy removal.
He added that the government was ready to provide palliatives for ‘the poorest of the poor to alleviate their hardship’.
“Our palliatives would get to the poorest of the poor wherever they are,” Radda promised.
The prayer session, held at the Peoples Square in the Government House, was also attended by Deputy Governor Faruq Jobe, and Secretary to the State Government, Abdullahi Faskari, among others.
Several Islamic clerics and groups offered prayers and recited the Holy Quran at the two-hour session.
