A peace accord aimed at ensuring peace before, during and after the 2019 general election, signed by leaders of the two prominent faiths in the country, Islam and Christianity, has been described as capable of ensuring sanity in Nigeria’s body polity.
According to the Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria (MMWGN), the peace agreement, signed by the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, and the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Samson Ayokunle, will douse tension and reduce rancour among politicians and other stakeholders, especially Muslim and Christian groups who have “unnecessarily become rivals.”
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In a statement signed by its Ogun State coordinator, Kamaldeen Akintunde, the MMWGN noted that the initiative would check ethnic hostilities, religious bigotry, violence and hate speech which, it said, had characterised Nigeria’s political landscape.
Sultan Abubakar and Rev. Ayokunle were reported to have put pen to paper at a Peace Declaration Summit in Abuja, staged by the Nigerian Interfaith Action Association with local and international bodies as partners.
The MMWGN posited that the process of getting people into political offices should be devoid of religious, ethnic and other sentiments capable of undermining free, fair and credible elections.
It, therefore, asked Nigerians to eschew emotions and elect credible people into offices.
While imploring the two leaders to translate the peace bond into action by charging significant others and followers to shun provocative and inflammatory utterances that might constitute threat to the enthronement of the next republic, it emphasised the need for religious leaders and preachers to preach love, peace, tolerance, patriotism, justice, participatory and qualitative governance to their followers and political leaders.
It opined that such virtues could be incorporated into the Friday khutbah/sermon and Sunday service and other veritable platforms and fora.
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