Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has challenged religious leaders across the major faiths to use their pulpits to convey messages that unify the diversity of the nation.

Besides, Ganduje insisted that for Nigeria to remain indivisible entirely amid the prevailing adversities, religious and ethnic harmony across divides is sacrosanct.

Ganduje gave the remark at the Government House, Kano while inaugurating the Interfaith Conference Committee to stimulate religious harmony in the country.

While reminding the management of the nation’s ethno-religious diversity is presently taking the global banner for sustainable development and peaceful coexistence, Ganduje insisted that no human nature should be divided on the basis of differences in faith and ethnicity.

According to Ganduje, “Our diversities in religion and tribes is not by accident but by nature because the almighty who made and created human beings could have brought about all humankind in the same faith and colour.

“The fact that some people are white while others are black is not incidental. This diversity of nature should have made mankind strong and more prosperous because there are huge benefits in unity and diversity. People have no business fighting each other in the name of religion because you cannot fight nature,” Ganduje noted.

The governor, however, cautioned political elites against the use of religion as a sentiment to create division among people of faiths and ethnicities, adding that the relationship between Muslims and Christians must be devoid of political inclination.

Inaugurating the 18-member committee under the Chairmanship of Chief Imam Sha’aba Mosque, Kundila, Sheikh Mohammad Bin Usman, and co-chairmanship Archbishop of Metropolitan Province/North, The African Church Ecumenical Centre, Presiding Chaplain, CAN headquarters, Abuja, Peter Ogunmuyiwa; Ganduje tasked members to organise a conference where dialogue on religious tolerance and peaceful atmosphere reign in the country.

Membership of the committee includes representatives of various Islamic sects, the Christian Association of Nigeria, Federation of Female Lawyers, National Association of Women Journalists, commissioners, special advisers and Commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba, who serves as secretary to the committee.

In their separate acceptance remarks, the chairman and the co-head, pledged to deliver on the responsibility reposed on the committee in the interest of unity of the nation and humanity.

Parts of the terms of reference mandated on the committee include organising a national conference on Interfaith and selecting speakers who would discuss national unity and harmonious coexistence amidst diversity.