No plan to Islamise Nigeria, says FG
The Federal Government says the affirmed Islamisation of Nigeria under the present organization is absolutely false and ought to be seen completely as a crusade of slander.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed expressed this on Monday in Ilorin at the Federal Government Town Hall meeting for the North Central zone.
He noticed that as of late, the media had been progressively inundated with flammable proclamations intended to pitch the disciples of the two conspicuous religions Christians and Muslims against each other.
The pastor said the common way of Nigeria's Constitution makes the issue of religious predominance and exemption implausible.
"Such false notions like the Islamisation of Nigeria, the slaughtering of Christians by Muslims, the naming of Nigeria as the most perilous place for Christians on the planet can just fill one need: trigger a religious war.
"Obviously that no country ever survives a religious war,'' he said.
The priest said those making the claims were utilizing religion as device to disparage the administration and redirect consideration from the administration's hostile to debasement position.
He said that as a rule, clashes amongst Muslims and Christians were fuelled by political inspirations, ethnic contrasts, fanaticism, bigotry and psychological warfare.
"No doubt about it, there have been clashes between disciples of the two noteworthy religions in specific parts of the nation.
"To now extrapolate from that to state Nigeria is the most perilous place for Christians on the planet is an injury to Nigeria and a needless excess.''
He spoke to the media to stop from giving a stage to types of flammable proclamations.
The pastor likewise spoke to Christian and Muslim pioneers to copy Catholic Cardinal John Onaiyekan and Sultan of Sokoto, Sa'ad Abubakar who framed the Inter-confidence Initiative for Peace to advance between confidence exchange.
Mohammed said the North-Central version is the eighth in the arrangement of the Town Hall Meetings, which began in Lagos on April 25, 2016.
He said the goal was to connect the correspondence crevice between the administration and the general population, conveying the general population along during the time spent administration and furthermore getting the truly necessary input from the citizenry.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Ministers of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu went to the occasion .
Others are Ministers of State for Mines and Steel, Bawa Bwari, Budget and National Planting, Zainab Ahmed and Industry, Trade and Investment, Aisha Abubakar.
The clergymen gave records of their stewardship and handled inquiries from the gathering of people on basic national issues.
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