BEVERLY HILLS, February 13, (THEWILL) – The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III on Friday accused some politicians of taking advantage of Nigerians’ religious and ethnic differences to cause unrest in the country.
The monarch, who admitted that sectarian crises could have religious undertone, insisted that religious differences cannot be said to be the main reason for such violence.
He made this remark while delivering a lecture entitled ‘Traditional and Religious Institutions in Nigeria: Implication for National Security’ in Abuja on Friday, where he blamed the sectarian violence in the country on politicians.
While blaming such crisis on the nation’s political, ethnic, religious and ethnic diversities, he observed that: “Unwholesome and divisive politics has tended to propagate hatred and ill-feeling and the demonization of entire religious and ethnic groups.
Abubakar regretted that several sectarian crises which started as minor political difference later snowballed into major religious crisis in the country.
He further pointed out that that some citizens had exploited the prevailing aversion for Western education to command a large number of followers who were being used to wreak havoc on the society.
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