Eid-el-Kabir: Spread love, Atiku charges Muslims

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Atiku Abubakar

By Emmanuel Oloniruha

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has advised Muslims across the country to promote and spread love among fellow Nigerians in order to consolidate the nation’s unity.

Abubakar, in a message to mark the Eid-el-Kabir celebration issued by his media office on Monday in Abuja, said that religion should be used as a means to advance love among the people.

He explained that diversity was not the cause of Nigeria’s problems but the attitude of citizens toward one another.

“The common interests that unite Nigerians are by far stronger than those petty factors that divide us,” Abubakar said, adding that diversity could be used to advantage.

He said that intolerance, extremism and bigotry, if unchecked, could threaten peace and unity in any country while peace and unity are the greatest assets that should not be taken for granted by Nigerians.

According to him, interfaith dialogue will not go far enough if bigotry was allowed to defeat…



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