Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has
congratulated Nigerian Muslims and their counterparts across the world for the
successful completion of this year's Ramadan fasting and celebration of
Eid-el-Fitri while calling on them to intensify prayers for unity, peace and
progress in Nigeria.
Saraki, in a statement signed by his Special Adviser (Media),
Mr. Yusuph Olaniyonu, said Muslims should adhere to one of the injunctions of
Allah that formed the basis of sermons delivered in various mosques during the
holy month that all citizens should pray for their leaders and their nation so
that the leaders can receive divine guidance while initiating measures that
will bring comfort and respite for the generality of the people.
"At this point in our national life, unity among all the
different ethnic and religious groups will usher in peace and peace can only
engender progress and development. We therefore need to learn to live together
in peace, tolerate one another and eschew actions which can threaten the peace
of the nation.
"Muslims, in particular, should continue to demonstrate
the fact that the meaning of Islam is peace and therefore we should learn to
live in peace with people of other faith and tolerate each other. We should
also remember our fellow citizens in the North eastern part of the country who
are being assailed by insurgents who call themselves Boko Haram", he said.
The Senate President urged all Nigerians to continue to pray
for our military men who are engaged in the war against the insurgents so that
by the period of the next Ramadan, peace would have been totally restored to
the whole of the North East and other parts of Nigeria.
He added that good follower-ship is a sine qua non for good
leadership and that Nigerians should always display patriotism, pay their taxes
as at when due, eschew corrupt practices and protect public facilities as if it
is their own
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