Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC has urged Nigerians not to allow the crisis currently ongoing in the country to lead into a serious war.
Tinubu has said that peradventure, there is a serious conflict and Nigerians decide to flee into other countries in West Africa, there wouldn’t be enough space to accommodate them. Recall that in recent times there have been inter-ethnic clashes and the increase in kidnappings and other forms of violence.
Reacting to the violence, Tinubu has said that Nigeria is currently facing a crisis which is threatening her security. However, God Almighty who made the country the way it is will guide and protect the people.
While delivering a speech at the eighth-day Fidau prayer held in honour of the the late Lateef Jakande, who was the first civilian Governor of Lagos State, Tinubu stated that those who have witnessed war before can never want a repeated fate for Nigeria.
He further appealed on the memory of the Late Jakande by urging Nigerians not to follow the route to war. According to him, Nigerians shouldn’t turn the challenges they are facing into ethnic, tribal, and religious crises.
In his words;
“Nigeria is currently facing a crisis; a crisis of insurgency, banditry in all aspects of security, but God Almighty that made this country as one of the largest and most resourceful countries will protect us.
“I appeal, in his (Jakande’s) memory today, for us not to turn whatever challenges we are facing right now into ethnic, tribal, and religious crises.
“If there is a crisis, where do we go? We will submerge the entire West Africa, there will be no enough space to accommodate us.
“Those who have seen the effect of war, the effect of tribal conflict, of religious conflict, will never want it for Nigeria.
“We pray to God to strengthen our minds, guide our faith, put peace, and bring peace unto this land, may Allah bless all of us.”
