Nigerians have been told not to allow themselves to be used by disgruntled politicians to cause breach of the peace.
Similarly, they are admonished to ensure mutual contribution and team work for the realisation of the change they had voted for.
The call was made yesterday in Sokoto by Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar at a Sallah lunch he organized for the residents in the state.
He noted that Nigeria more than before, needed peace and observed that political losers could seize opportunity to instigate others to cause problems in the country.
” They are capable of causing the breach of the peace and therefore we should all be wary of such unpatriotic Nigerians so that its citizens can live peacefully with each other,” he cautioned.
Abubakar also challenged leaders to be just, pious, fair and equitable to all, saying that, this is the basis of prevalence of peace and even socio-economic development.
The religious monarch further noted that the settler-indigene dichotomy was the major precipitating factor in many states of the federation.
” How can somebody who has lived in a place for close to forty or over fifty years be regarded as a non indigene?”, he rhetorically asked.
According to Sultan while citing an example, said ” In America, if a child is born today, he or she will be given a passport, this is how it is supposed to be globally”, he pondered.
He said Sokoto remains a home to all, irrespective of any religious, political , social or ethnic differences, adding that nobody pay schools for their kids, at primary and secondary schools levels.”
However, Abubakar appealed to Nigerians to come together and live peacefully with each other, while also admonishing the leaders to carry all Nigerians along saying that ” we need to appreciate ourselves as one and work as such because this world is a very short place to be and discrimination in any form is anti progress.”
Speaking, the President-General of the Association of Resident Communities, Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim commended the Sultan for the gesture, describing Sokoto as the most peaceful state in the country.
