AS Muslims  celebrate the Eid-el-Maulud, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has urged them to pray for the peaceful coexistence, security and prosperity of the nation.

Ekweremadu, who made the call in a special Eid-el-Maulud message to Muslim faithful expressed worry because though the country’s religions and cultures professed peace, love, good neighbourliness, but  unimaginable and horrendous acts of terrorism and violence were being visited on the nation under the pretexts of religion.

According to him, “Our religions and cultures have no place for the violence and acts of terrorism that are putting the country on the global map for the wrong reasons, while pushing her to the edge at the same time. Hence, I enjoin all Nigerians and the Muslim faithful to continually shun messengers of extremism and denounce all those who hide under the cloak of religion to pursue unhealthy agenda and perpetrate crimes against their neighbours, the state, and humanity.”