The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has appealed to Nigerians to eschew violence and division as the country is big enough to accommodate all differences.<\/p>\n
Osinbajo made the appeal in his message to the citizens to mark 18 years of unbroken democracy in the country and the second anniversary of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n
He urged the different groups who felt aggrieved with any thing in the country to apply peaceful and legal means to express their wishes.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigeria belongs to all of us. No one person or group of persons is more important or more entitled than the other in this space that we all call home.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we have a responsibility to live in peace and harmony with one another, to seek peaceful and constitutional means of expressing our wishes and desires.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd to resist all who might seek to sow confusion and hatred for their own selfish interests,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Osinbajo noted that while we all daily pre-occupy ourselves with pursuing the Nigerian Dream, it was inevitable that grievances and frustrations would arise from time to time.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThis is normal. What is not normal, or acceptable, is employing these frustrations as justification for indulging in discrimination or hate speech or hateful conduct of any kind.”<\/p>\n
Osinbajo also explained that it was abnormal to seek to undermine by violent or other illegal means, the very existence of the sovereign entity that has brought us together as brothers and sisters and citizens.<\/p>\n
The acting president said there was much work to be done, adding \u201c Nigeria is on a journey of greatness, and together we shall arrive at the destination of our dreams\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n
The acting president also called for continued prayers of Nigerians for the restoration to full health and strength and the safe return of our president.<\/p>\n
He congratulated everyone on the \u201ccommemoration of this important day in the democratic calendar of our country and prayed God to bless the citizens and the federation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has appealed to Nigerians to eschew violence and division as the country is big enough to accommodate all differences. Osinbajo made the appeal in his message to the citizens to mark 18 years of unbroken democracy in the country and the second anniversary of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":63410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34888,11766,20554,17159],"yoast_head":"\n