A university don, Professor Umar Hamman Diram, has cautioned politicians spread across the country to cease dividing Nigerians along religious and tribal lines.
Diram, currently a lecturer at the University of Maiduguri, stated this on Wednesday in Gembu, the administrative headquarters of Sardauna local government council of Taraba State.
He said rather than going about using religion and ethnic sentiment to achieve their political ambitions, politicians should endeavour to play the game by the laid down rules.
The university who spoke as the guest speaker at the national congress of the old students’ association of Government Secondary School Gembu, said he could not fathom why politicians have continued to derive joy in polluting the minds of Nigerians.
Rather than indulging in such acts, he pleaded with them to venture into acts that would herald development for the people and the society at large.
Citing the past, where he observed that the people had lived in relative harmony with little emphasis on divisions among them and had experienced steady growth and relative peace, he felt sad that the reverse is now the case.
Believing that such politicians would not have been having their ways if the people had been ignoring them, the need for Nigerians to desist from giving ears to such kind of overzealous politicians, he said, has become necessary.
