Plateau: 325 intending pilgrims to Mecca lose seats

About 325 intending pilgrims to Mecca this year are to lose their seats following the cut on the number of pilgrims by the Saudi Arabian authorities.
The lost seats were part of the initial 1,625 seats allocated to the state for this year’s hajj.
The Executive Secretary of the State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Salisu Musa, disclosed this at a press briefing in Jos on Tuesday,

According to him, the cut in the number of seats was as a result of the global 20 per cent reduction of intending pilgrims to this year’s hajj owing to construction work going on in the Holy Mosque of Ka’a at Makkah.
Musa explained that after a meeting in Abuja with the National Hajj Commission, it was agreed that any intending pilgrim that had once performed hajj should be automatically disqualified, adding that priority would be given to first timers.