Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko has condemned the Christmas Day bombing of churches in the North.
Scores of worshippers died and many other injured in the bombings.
The governor noted that evil days lie ahead for the nation, if the bombers do not change.
He described the Christmas Day bombing as a dastardly act against humanity, urging rational beings among religious and ethnic groups to condemn the perpetrators.
In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Eni Akinsola, the governor said the bombers’ activities thrive on the absence of a national consensus to condemn their lack of feelings for the sacred lives of fellow beings.
Beyond the immediate condemnation by the elite, which the governor said is pretentious, he said the elite go about fuelling the embers of discord and sharpening the edges of the ethnic differences across the country.
Mimiko said: “There is no reason, sound enough; no justification, logical enough; and no injustice, grave enough, to warrant recourse to such grave tactics as bombing and mass murder.
“Nigerians should rise above politics and the quest for political relevance and see how to fashion out a credible preventive as well as response mechanism to those who have deliberately chosen violence as a means of pursuing their cause, whatever it is.”
The governor warned that evil days lie ahead, if there is no change of heart among those bent on perpetrating violence to seek redress to perceived injustice.
He said: “No nation wrecks the kind of carnage as we are now witnessing without paying higher price of internal implosion. We must do everything to avert this drift to chaos.”
Mimiko condoled with the families of those affected by the blast, urging those behind the killings to reason, if their cause could be better served by destroying lives and property.
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