Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to president Muhammadu Buhari’s statement; ”that 90 percent of Boko Haram victims are Muslims”.
According to him, the killings by Boko Haram should not be justified irrespective of the religious affiliation of the victims.
Quoting a verse of the Qur’an (chapter 2 verse 256), he said religion is about love, and not compulsion.
Reacting via a tweet on Wednesday, Atiku said the killings should only be “condemned unequivocally”.
Atiku Abubakar
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We mustn’t rationalise killings. Whether Christian, Muslim, Traditionalist, or Atheist, the killing of any human being, by Boko Haram, or any misguided group, is wrong & should be condemned unequivocally. There is no compulsion in religion. Only love.-AAhttps://m.guardian.ng/news/90-of-boko-haram-victims-are-muslims-buhari/ …
The President had claimed that it is not true that the Boko Haram insurgency had claimed the lives of more Christians than Muslims.
He argued that the contrary was the case, insisting that “90 per cent” of deaths from attacks by the terrorists were Muslims.
