Boko Haram: ‘Nobody is being persecuted in North’ – Sultan of Sokoto blasts Christian leaders
Abubakar insists that nobody was being persecuted because Boko Haram was targeting both Christians and Muslims in the Northern part of the country.
His comment is coming at a time when some leaders of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, alongside the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch AdeboyeHowever, the Sultan called for unity, stressing that Boko Haram should not be allowed to divide the country. “If we go out shouting, marching, dancing and singing that people of a particular religion are being persecuted and killed, you also forget people of other religions are also affected in the killings by the same enemies of the state.
“We have been reading and hearing reports about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria and I keep asking myself, how? Christians are being killed, Muslims are also being killed, and they are all lives created by God.
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