In an Eid-al-Fitri message marking the end of the 30-day Ramadan fasting period, the former Vice President regretted that terrorists had shed so much blood in the name of religion and, therefore, urged all Muslims to pray to God to defeat and destroy these evil doers using religion as a cover-up.
According to the former Vice President, the dark agenda of the terrorist defies any clearly defensible goals, adding that their activities contradict all the tenets of the Islamic religion, including the injunctions on the sanctity of life.
The Turaki Adamawa advised Muslims to join hands with other Nigerians of goodwill to defeat the terrorists’ agenda of trying to provoke sectarian crisis by attacking the places of worship.
He said the terrorists spared neither Muslims nor Christians, saying Nigerians must be united against them “so that we don’t play into their hands by helping them to achieve their agenda of seeking to divide and dismember our dear country by causing deliberate provocation.”
On the current security challenges in the country, the former Vice President said security operatives should be ahead of the terrorists by nipping their plots in the bud.
He, however, enjoined all Nigerians to assist the security agencies by being vigilant and furnishing them with information that might enhance their efficiency to deal decisively with insurgency and other criminal activities plaguing the country.
Atiku also urged political leaders to urgently deal with the hardships of the ordinary people in the country.
He explained that the worsening level of poverty and unemployment, which feed criminal tendencies, was embarrassing and needed to be redressed.
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