President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration will not allow religion divide Nigerians.
President Buhari, who said this yesterday while receiving the Tijjaniyya Muslim Religious Movement at the State House, hailed the prevailing mutual understanding among the followers of the two major religions in the country: Islam and Christianity.
The president, in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, expressed the determination of his administration to forge a strong, united nation from the diverse religious and ethnic communities in the country.
Buhari, who told leaders of the delegation, mostly Senegalese, that the Tijjaniyya religious order was not new to him or to Nigerians, cited specific communities around him thatpracticed its ways and lauded them for being orderly, peaceful and constructive.
He welcomed the prayers of the religious group for his wellbeing and for peace and progress in Nigeria, and urged them to convey his best wishes to President Macky Sall of Senegal.
The leader of the delegation, Sheikh Muhammad Lamin Inyas, son of one of the greatest Muslim religious leaders in West Africa, Sheikh Ibrahim Inyas, said their father brought them up to love and appreciate his large following in Kano and other parts of Nigeria.
