President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Christianity is not contracting under pressure in Nigeria but actually expanding.
He said this while reacting to the death of the leader of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and stated that 90% of Boko Haram victims are Muslims.
He also stated that Boko Haram and other terrorists are looking for ways to divide Nigeria and are attempting that through religion hereby making people build an invisible wall between both religions.
His statement reads, “It is very tragic that there is tin if a vocal, minority of Nigerian religious leaders—both Muslim and Christian—who appear more than prepared to fall for the divisive antics of terrorists and to blame the opposite religious side. Boko Haram and other terrorists today attempt to build invisible walls between us. They have failed in their territorial ambition s; so now instead they seek to divide our state of mind, by pulling us from one from another—to set one religion seemingly implacably against the other.”
He reaffirmed that Nigeria will remain indivisible to those who seek to divide Nigerians by religion.
“We cannot and must not allow them to divide good Christians and good Muslims from those things that bind us all in the sight of God: faith, family, forgiveness, fidelity, and friendship to each other. There is no place in Nigeria for those who seek to divide us by religion, who compel others to change their faith forcibly, or try to convince others that by so doing, they are doing good.”
“Those who seek to divide and undermine us are putting their energies into spreading various falsehoods, such as that Christianity is under threat in Nigeria, and that Boko Haram is primarily targeting Christians. Contrary to those falsehoods, Christianity is not contracting under pressure in Nigeria but instead expanding. Neither is it the case that the terrorists are targeting only Christians; the reality indeed is that some 90 per cent of all Boko Haram’s victims have been Muslims.”
