A pan Lagos pro-democracy organization, Movement for a Better Lagos has cautioned religious organizations and their leaders against any statement and body languages that could cause religious disharmony and intolerance in the society.
The group, in a statement from its leader, Comrade Omolola Olukayode, said, such religious leaders are expected to be the conveyors of tolerance, peaceful co-existence and harmony that the country needs at this point in time saying, what the country needs most now is anything that would remove the mutual suspicion staring the citizens in the face.
The group was reacting to a statement from the leader of a faith based organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Professor Ishaq Akintola in which he said the next governor of Lagos State must be a Muslim, reminding that, “Lagos is not a religious enclave.”
The statement further frowned at Prof. Akintola’s submission for its potential to cause religious fracas, interdenominational discord and incitement that is capable of destabilising the peaceful co-existence the people of the state have been enjoying, warning that, any act that can cause frictions among various adherents of all the religious outfits in the state would be resisted according to the rule of the constitution.
“Lagos is known for a state where everybody, irrespective of religious leaning, political affiliation, social attachment or ethnic differences live as brothers and sisters,” the statement added , insisting that, “that would be maintained before, during and after the coming election because any unwholesome occurrence in Lagos will affect the whole country.
Concluding, the group reminded the devastating effect the ill-fated #EndSARS protest in Lagos had on the whole country, admonishing that, “no person or group of persons would not be allowed to plunge the state, albeit the whole country into such an avoidable violence now or in the near future.”
