Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the State of Osun, western Nigeria, on Thursday said no nation could develop and attain greatness without peace and love among its citizens.
Aregbesola made the remarks in his Eid el-Kabir message in Osogbo.
“Without peace and love, no nation unites and no nation attains greatness in an atmosphere of disunity, singing discordant tunes.
“The better time to promote love, tolerance, and spread the message of peace is during festive periods like this.
“I call on Muslims in Osun and the entire Nigerian Muslim ummah to seize the opportunity of the Eid to reach out to people of different faiths with greetings and messages of love and peace,” he said.
He decried the rising wave of violence and insurgency across the world, saying that at no time in human political history had peace been this endangered.
“With the drums of war and violence resonating in all corners of the world, Nigeria must do everything humanly possible to douse the tension in the North-East and other parts,’’ he stated.