President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the fresh video released by the Islamic State West Africa Province showing the killing of some Christians in captivity, appealing to Christians in Nigeria not to allow the execution, turn them against Muslims.
President Buhari in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, says he was saddened and shocked by the death of innocent hostages in the hands of ”remorseless, godless, callous gangs of mass murderers that have given Islam a bad name through their atrocities.’
He said “We should, under no circumstance, let the terrorists divide us by turning Christians against Muslims because these barbaric killers don’t represent Islam and millions of other law-abiding Muslims around the world. As a President, the collective security of all Nigerians is my major preoccupation and the death of an innocent Christian or Muslim distresses me. No true Muslim would be shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ while killing innocent people, an evil frequently condemned by the Holy Qur’an. These agents of darkness are enemies of our common humanity and they don’t spare any victim, whether they are Muslims or Christians, and therefore, we shouldn’t let them divide us and turn us against one another.”