We must not rationalize killings, Atiku tells Buhari

Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has advised the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to not rationalize killings in Nigeria.

Atiku stated this in reaction to a statement by the president on the death of Lawan Andimi, the Adamawa State chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN.

Buhari had said, “it is the reality that some 90 percent of all Boko Haram’s victims have been Muslims. They include a copycat abduction of over 100 Muslim schoolgirls, along with their single Christian classmate, shootings inside mosques; and the murder of two prominent imams.

"It is a simple fact that these now-failing terrorists have targeted the vulnerable, the religious, the non-religious, the young, and the old without discrimination, ” the President stressed.

Reacting to the president's statement, Atiku stated that the killing of any human being should be condemned unequivocally irrespective of religious affiliation.

“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,” Atiku tweeted.