With the words, “I won’t rest until I bring relief to Nigerians,” President Muhammadu Buhari has reassured us once more that his administration will continue to handle the country’s present security issues and cost of living concerns.
The president assured Nigerian Muslims and other residents in his Eid-el-Kabir address delivered in Abuja, according to Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s media adviser.
“I am quite aware of the difficulties people are facing and working to resolve them,” the president added.
But he urged Nigerians to put their nation’s interests ahead of their own and to “use religion as a motivation for the love of our common humanity.”
Buhari said that “if we are putting the teachings of our religions into practice, most of the evils afflicting our society would have been solved.”
According to the President, religion should be used as a catalyst for doing good for the nation and humanity rather than just as a means of identification.
He expressed disapproval at the theft of public funds by government employees and other people in positions of trust and said that these negative vices were a result of our society’s rejection of the moral precepts of our religions.
“Our society is a bundle of contradictions. People display external religiosity without fear of God; they make life difficult for others; money becomes their god; leaders abandon their oaths of office by taking money meant for the welfare of the people and diverting it to their private pockets,” he said.
For special mention, Buhari thanked “the brave men and women in uniform fighting terror on many fronts and their families, as well as others held hostage and kept away from their families by wicked and heartless terrorists” in his congratulations to the Muslim Ummah on the occasion of Eid.
He took use of the opportunity to encourage all Muslims to consider the importance of the sacrifice embodied by Eid.
”We should show love and care to our neighbours and others while celebrating this spiritually important event in our lives,” he said.
Muslims should “promote the positive aspects of Islam through personal examples and practice,” President Buhari further admonished.
“Muslims should avoid association with violent extremist ideas that have wrongly given Islam a negative image or poor perception.”
The President expressed his wish that everyone in Nigeria would experience blessings this Eid, including peace, prosperity, and safety, emphasizing that harmony and stability would rule the nation.
