National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement in Jos that religious leaders in the country to stop using religion as a tool to divide us.
He stated that the warning became necessary following the false messages being circulated via SMS to the effect that adherents of a certain religion were being killed in a part of the country and their houses of worship burnt on Saturday, when nothing of such happened.
”After receiving the text message, we investigated and discovered that nothing of such happened today, Saturday, Jan. 17th 2015,” the APC said, describing those peddling such incendiary messages as liars from hell and agents of evil.
It said such messages could set adherents of the country’s two main religions against themselves.
The party challenged the security agencies to investigate, arrest and prosecute the brains behind “these serpentine messages, instead of chasing shadows and turning themselves into tools of partisanship in the hands of unscrupulous and shameless politicians.
”Those who will use religion to divide the citizens for political reasons are not men of God, whether they are Christians or Muslims. They are agents of darkness and posterity will not be kind to them,” it said.
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