As Muslims world over celebrate the 2023 Eid-ul-Adha (the Festival of Sacrifice), Katsina Governor, Dikko Radda, has admonished Nigerians to treat each other as one, irrespective of their religious differences.
Radda said the religious festival affords Muslims across the world, the opportunity to appreciate their creator’s endless favours.
In a statement by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Ibrahim Mohammed, Radda urged Muslims in Katsina and other parts of the country, to steadfastly pray for national unity, peace, and integration during this season.
According to him, “This solemn festival should reawaken our brotherhood spirit, irrespective of our religious and ideological creeds, we must see each other as one. Fundamentally, we should all live peacefully and harmoniously. That is what will help to foster peace, love, and true brotherhood among all Nigerians,”.
Radda also admonished the “Muslims to be like Prophet Ibrahim, who dutifully obeyed Allah and offered to sacrifice his beloved son, Ismail; Muslims should rededicate themselves to sincerely worshipping their divine Lord, and adhere to religious injunctions that will earn them God’s abundant favours, both in this world and in the hereafter.
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He added, “The Eid-il-Kabir festival should go beyond the slaughtering of rams to sharing love and material possessions, not only with relatives or acquaintances but also with the displaced, the elderly, the orphans and other people at the margin of the society, including those with special needs,”.
The Katsina governor who also pointed out that Nigeria, as a nation, is at a critical juncture of its evolution, occasioned by various challenges hindering the country’s progress economically, appealed for the support, prayers, and goodwill of the masses, to guide her leaders, as President Bola Tinubu, governors and other political leaders, to assiduously work towards rebuilding the Nigerian State.
(Editor: Ena Agbanoma)
