15th September, 2010
As Muslims all over the world celebrate the end of Ramadan fasting, the vice president of the O’odua People’s Congress, OPC, Otunba Kazeem Badmus, has enjoined all Muslims and Nigerians in general to continue to be peaceful, law-abiding and show love to one another by being their brothers keeper.
Speaking with P.M.NEWS from Saudi Arabia, where he had gone to perform the lesser Hadjj (Humrah), he said the importance of fasting is to subdue our spirits and make us more spiritual, clean and be one with God, and that after the fasting period, it will be a greater sin to go back to all the vices which everyone had shunned during the holy month of Ramadan.
He also appealed to members of the OPC to always maintain peace and not to allow anyone to use them as thugs, especially now that the political terrain is heating up.
“I want to appeal to all OPC members to remain peaceful, especially as the general election is approaching and I am issuing a stern warning that anyone caught flaunting this order will be dealt with according to the law,†he stated.