President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his government would protect all religious and ethnic groups, whether majority or minority in line with its responsibility under the constitution.
Buhari made this vow a day after a violent clash between Hausa and Yoruba in Sasa Area of Ibadan City, Oyo State, Nigeria, where some Hausa men burnt down many houses and shops and destroyed property worth millions of naira belong to the Yoruba people.
According to a statement signed by Shehu Garba, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Buhari, reacting to reports of breakout of violence in some parts of the country by some ethnic and sectional groups warned that the government would not allow any ethnic or religious group to stoke up hatred and violence against other groups.
The President condemned such violence and gave assurance that his government would act decisively to stop the spread of any such violence.
He appealed to religious and traditional leaders as well governors and other elected leaders across the country to join hands with the Federal Government to ensure that communities in their domain are not splintered along ethnic and other primordial lines.
