President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that the current polarisation and inherent injustices in the country are neither fuelled by ethnicity nor religion, but Nigerians themselves.
Buhari said this while receiving members of the Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support Group, recently at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made the full text of the President’s address titled ‘Forget ethnicity, forget religion. We, the people are the problem of Nigeria, says President Buhari’ available to journalists on Wednesday.
The President again narrated his struggles to get justice at the courts, after disputed results of presidential elections in 2003, 2007, and 2011, concluding that people who ruled against him were of his own ethnic stock and religious persuasion, while those who stood up for him were of other faiths and ethnicity.
He said, “Our problem is not ethnicity or religion, it is ourselves.
“After my third appearance in the Supreme Court, I came out to speak to those who were present then. I told them that from 2003, I had spent 30 months in court.
“The President of the Court of Appeal, the first port of call for representation by presidential candidates then, was my classmate in secondary school in Katsina. We spent six years in the same class, Justice Umaru Abdullahi.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that the current polarisation and inherent injustices in the country are neither fuelled by ethnicity nor religion, but Nigerians themselves.
Buhari said this while receiving members of the Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support Group, recently at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made the full text of the President’s address titled ‘Forget ethnicity, forget religion. We, the people are the problem of Nigeria, says President Buhari’ available to journalists on Wednesday.
The President again narrated his struggles to get justice at the courts, after disputed results of presidential elections in 2003, 2007, and 2011, concluding that people who ruled against him were of his own ethnic stock and religious persuasion, while those who stood up for him were of other faiths and ethnicity.
He said, “Our problem is not ethnicity or religion, it is ourselves.
“After my third appearance in the Supreme Court, I came out to speak to those who were present then. I told them that from 2003, I had spent 30 months in court.
“The President of the Court of Appeal, the first port of call for representation by presidential candidates then, was my classmate in secondary school in Katsina. We spent six years in the same class, Justice Umaru Abdullahi.
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