BEVERLY HILLS, April 14, (THEWILL) – Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday tasked Nigerians to recommit to the unity and peace of the country.
Osinbajo spoke with newsmen shortly after he presided over the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Vice-President, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, asked Nigerian Muslims not to see the ongoing Ramadan fast as merely a season of abstinence from food, drink and worldly pleasures but also a time for rededication to the higher values and virtues of love, kindness, generosity.
He said: “I would like to express special greetings to our Muslim brothers and sisters who have begun the Ramadan fast.
“This is not merely a season of abstinence from food, drink, and worldly pleasures.
“It is a time of rededication to the higher values and virtues of love, kindness, generosity, and consideration for others regardless of faith or ethnicity.
“On the need for unity and peace in the country, the Vice-President said, “In particular for our nation, we must recommit ourselves now and in the future to the advancement of the unity, brotherhood, and peace in Nigeria.”
