Governor Okorocha urges Muslims to remain peaceful

The Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has urged Muslims in the State and indeed, across the nation to remain peaceful by pursuing peace and ensuring peace, as they mark Eid-el-Fitri and noted that the lingering suspicion between Christians and Muslims in the country was the creation of the elite.

The governor remarked that before now average Christians and Muslims across the nation had lived in peace and shared a lot of things in common without any suspicion, until the elite brought in clannishness for both their economic and political advantages.

According to Governor Okorocha, with peace in the Country and genuine love among Nigerians not minding their religious differences and place of births, Nigeria as a nation, would easily overcome its challenges and also achieve greatness.

He also urged Political and religious leaders to be patriotic enough by laying emphasis on those virtues that unite Nigerians as a people and talk less about those factors that have the capacity to eat deep into the unity of the nation.

The governor assured Muslims in the State that his government and the people of the State would continue to treat them as their brothers and Sisters, and reiterated his advice to them to remain peaceful and see themselves as partners in progress in his honest effort to make the State better than he met it.