The Vice-Chancellor of McPherson University, Ajebo, Ogun State, Francis Igbasan, has apprenticed the Federal Government not to booty abandon in the advancing war amid Israel and Palestine because of the assortment in Nigeria.
Igbasan fabricated the alarm at a appointment organised by the National Association for Christian Studies captivated at the university’s amphitheater on Tuesday.
According to him, the Israel-Hamas war is an agelong war that has its roots in acreage altercation rather than religious blush as actuality misconstrued in some quarters.
He stated, “The Israel-Hamas war started recently. As the battle continues to accomplish a ripple aftereffect on citizens of Israel and Palestine surrounding nations, the all-embracing association is activity the heat. Accord has taken a ‘flight’ out of the two countries!
“For 70 years, Israel and Palestine accept connected in the attempt to accretion ahead over anniversary added while at accident of invoking the interests of surrounding nations like Iran, Lebanon, and Syria, and some countries accept been demography sides.
“The United States and some Western countries accept declared abutment for Israel. Some added countries accept declared abutment for Palestine. The war is still angry and accord has taken a flight’ out of the two countries.”
He fatigued added that it would be in the absorption of the nation for President Bola Tinubu not to accord in to burden from any division to booty abandon with any of the clashing countries.
“On whether Nigeria should booty a ancillary in this Israel-Hamas war, I advance President Bola Tinubu should not accord in to the pressure. There are abounding circuitous undertones to the war. In my opinion, President Tinubu should footstep with caution. He should not be affected by religious sentiments and bigotry.
“The war is demography the colouration of a religious war, accuracy is, it is added of a bounded [land] war. Sincerely, nations should alpha because added another to all-embracing battle resolutions,” Igbasan said.
In his remarks, the President of NACS, Afolorunsho Dairo, acclaimed that the acceptable development of any nation cannot be accessible in an atmosphere of conflict.
He apprenticed stakeholders to assignment appear accomplishing all-around accord amid nations.
“Peace-building and acceptable development initiatives by their attributes aim at accomplishing abysmal and cogent change in a society. To accept this abstruse impact, alike at the association level, accord is essential. Virtually no individual, organiSation, or action can on its own accept a allusive appulse on issues of abandon and accord at the association level.
“This claiming has become axial to the peace-building field. This claiming is not absolutely new, nor is it different to peace-building, but the botheration is now added astute in Nigeria and that is why organisations in peace-building fields like Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, Battle Resolution, etc. charge assignment agilely to accomplish the accepted peace,” he said.