The standard-bearer of the Peoples’ Democratic Party [PDP] in the 2019 presidential elections, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, urged the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), not to rationalise killings.

Buhari had in an article published in Speaking Out, a guest opinion column for “Christianity Today,” on Tuesday said 90 per cent of all Boko Haram victims in the past years have been Muslims, adding that the perception that Boko Haram insurgents were always targeting Christians in Nigeria is not true.

Buhari had said,

“It is the reality that some 90 per cent of all Boko Haram’s victims have been Muslims. They include a copycat abduction of over 100 Muslims schoolgirls, along with their single Christian classmate, shooting inside mosques; and the murder of two prominent imams.

“It is simple fact that these now-falling terrorists have targeted the vulnerable, the religious, the non-religious, the young, and the old without discrimination.”

But Atiku in reference to Buhari’s comment cautioned against rationalising killings.

Atiku, in his Twitter personal handle, @atiku, said killing by any misguided group is wrong and should be condemned.

He tweeted:

“We must not rationalise killings. Whether Christian, Muslim, Traditionalist, or Atheist, the killing of any human being, by Boko Haram, or any other misguided group, is wrong and should be condemned unequivocally. There is no compulsion in religion. Only love. –AA”