President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the armed forces to resist and reject ethno-centricism and religious intolerance, warning that one of the most profound dangers to Nigeria’s democracy and freedom is the divisive application of ethnic and religious diversities.

“These evils threaten our very existence as a sovereign and indivisible nation,” he said in an address to service chiefs and graduates of the Senior Course 38 at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, at the weekend.

Buhari, who spoke through Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in his address to service, stressed that being in the military today required more than just carrying weapons, but that an officer must be a public intellectual and thinker who is “versatile, dynamic and capable of introspection.”
His words, “Our society is more complex and our world is more difficult than ever before. The nature of warfare is also vastly different, consequently, the officer of today cannot just be soldier, in any event, being in the military today requires more than just carrying weapons.”

The president stated that Nigeria needs men and women in the armed forces who are prepared to make the sacrifices and self-constraints that are crucial to a strong society.

He said the armed forces had the responsibility of fighting against all forms of ethnic and religious prejudices because they were probably the most visible symbols of national unity and cohesion.

Buhari stated that building a new Nigeria required a new tribe of men and women of all faiths who are of diverse tribes and ethnicities, but firmly committed to a country run on high values of integrity hard work, justice and love.
He said contemporary military warfare, especially the influence of technology like drones, had posed a huge challenge, hence the need for the military to develop the right strategies to deal with “this future before us.”

“Our nation at this time needs an elite consisting of professionals from the military, businessmen, politicians, religious leaders and all others who believe that a new Nigeria is possible. This nation needs an elite prepared to stick together, fight corruption and other national ills side by side; an elite who insists on justice even where our friends are at the receiving end,” he said.

Source....http://dailypost.ng/2016/07/04/buhari-identifies-threats-to-nigerias-democracy-indivisibility/

Well Said Mr. President.

See who's talking

See religious fanatic preaching tolerance, nawa o....

Nigeria's indivisibility? If Britain that created Nigeria can hold two referendums in two years, one for Scotland to leave Britain and another for Britain to leave the EU, then there is no such thing as an "indivisible Nigeria"

And yet only his people got jobs meant for all ethnic groups. His kinsmen are busy clearing and cleansing other ethnic groups.
Nice one buhari! Nice one!

You can fool them(zombies) but not me.

I always laugh in swahili when this man(President of Nigeria)talks.

I have this simple message for him,"Death wey go kill dog no dey allow am perceive the smell of a shit" and "he who the gods wan deal with go first make am mad"

A wise word for he who oppress others and enjoy when people die recklessly.

OP,

Una don start with divisive titles bah? Or is the problem that of comprehension?

Where in the main body is the nonsense spin you put? How does the title match the content?

Unfortunately, the braying hordes of unlettered dyslexic souls we have here will run with it and begin their usual convulsing and mourning....

Likei:
See religious fanatic preaching tolerance, nawa o....

You dey mind El-dullardeen? Even devil knows all the pages of the bible.

He is only telling you to allow him remain the only person who can be ethnocentric and religiously bigotted, he doesn't want you to have the right to be bigotted too.

The most ethnic bigot in our history!! Other presidents usually do their ethnic appointment coded but buhari does his own in the open and damns the consequences