‘Nigeria can overcome security challenges’

Speaking at the opening session of the 6th triennial congress of the northern states council of the Ansar-du-deen Society of Nigeria, the SSS boss, who was represented by the state Director of the service Alhaji Jubril Danmalam, said everybody has something to offer in this direction so that Nigeria will record the required level of sustainable peace, unity, security and socio economic transformation.
The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, represented by Sokoto State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Shu’aibu Gambo, said “religion should be used as a tool for bringing harmony and peaceful coexistence and not for any destructive purposes.”
 The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar said they would continue to work towards sustainable peace, unity  and religious tolerance in Nigeria.
 The National President of the society, Alhaji Lateef Okunnu noted that the security situation in Nigeria particularly in the north was worrisome and stressed the need for the entrenchment of peace, saying it is only in an atmosphere of peace that development can take place.