They also urged fleeing non-indigenes from the crisis-prone states at the wake of Boko Haram insurgency to return.
The meeting by the clerics, who came from all parts of the country, according to the organisers, was designed to re-assure citizens from other parts of the country that the North was safe for all Nigerians to live and pursue their legitimate businesses unmolested.
The event was hosted by two non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the National Peace Makers’ Initiative Forum (NPMIF), in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity Foundation, while participants were drawn from the three geo-political zones of the country.
They resolved that “Nigerians, irrespective of differences in religious, cultural or ethnic backgrounds, ought to be united and work together for the progress of the nation”.
Convener of the meeting and Chairman of NPMIF, Alhaji Mohammadu Bello Sa’eed, said: “Certain elements in the society were bent on creating division among Muslims and Christians”.
He also decried the use of religion by some unpatriotic Nigerians to foment crisis in the country.
He argued that “the only way to resist the move is for adherents of the two religions to shun the manipulative tendencies of such individuals”, stressing that “once Muslims and Christians are united and speak with one voice, the question of insecurity will no longer be an issue”.
Also in his address, the President, Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (CPCR), Bishop Goodluck Akpede, who led other Christian clerics from Ibadan, said: “We are going to prove to the world that things are not as bad as they were made to believe.”
Akpede admitted the possibility that some people may have been wronged in one way or the other but suggested that “such aggrieved persons ought to channel their grievances through normal way of dialogue while government
should endeavour to have a listening ear to the aspirations of the people”.
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