President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday charged Nigerians to be tolerant and embrace peace in the interest of the country.
The President made the appeal during his visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda.
In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President said “the lessons from his visit were the need for Nigerians to continue to be tolerant of one another and for the nation to also preserve its own antecedents from the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970).
“I went through all the experiences from January 15 1966 till date. I was a Governor, Minister and a Head of State and went through detention. I returned to partisan politics and will finish my two terms as constitutionally allowed.
“We fought a thirty-month bitter war and we killed about a million of each other. Nigeria went through this kind of terrible development process”, the statement reads.
The President also hailed and mourned the victims of Rwanda Genocide in…
