By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, ABUJA
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has lamented that there is a plot by wicked people to put the country under religious stress.
The President in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said that the country’s religious freedom and diversity make it great, adding that it is the diversity that gives Nigeria its strength.
President Buhari was reacting to the recent tragedy in Owo, Ondo state two weeks ago and the killings and kidnappings that took place in Kaduna.
The statement read: “From the tragedy in Owo two weeks ago that shook our nation to its core, to the killings and kidnappings just this weekend in Kaduna State, it is clear that there is a design by wicked people to put the country under religious stress.
“President Muhammadu Buhari believes that “our religious freedom, our diversity, is what makes Nigeria great. It is this diversity that gives Nigeria its strength. That is why Nigeria’s enemies seek to destroy it, by putting us against one another.