The Sultan of Sokoto Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III yesterday urged Nigerians to refrain from the blame game, unite against terrorists, bandits, and other criminal elements in the country.
Alhaji Abubakar lamented the rising insecurity in the country and advised Muslims to stop accusing Christians of promoting killings in the North.
He also charged Christians to disregard the recent threat by unknown persons to kill anyone found in churches in Zamfara State.
The monarch expressed disapproval over the killings and kidnappings in the country and enjoined all the citizens to stop the blame game.
He said: “The blame game has to stop so that we can work in unity to overcome” those he described as “our common enemies. If I continue talking about the insecurity in the North, we will not leave this room. A few days ago, we read media reports on how people were killed in a bus in Sokoto. There is no single day that passes without people being killed in the North especially in the Northwest.
“When I saw a note that the bandits are threatening Christians in Zamfara, I asked what is the work of our security agencies?
“I will not stop going to the mosque to pray because I saw in a paper that if I go to the mosque I will be killed, let me be killed, I must die, so Christians should not be afraid of going to church to worship because an anonymous person is threatening them.”
