The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has felicitated the Muslim Ummah in the country as they celebrate this year Eid al-Adha otherwise known as the Festival of Sacrifice.

President of CAN, Dr. Samson Ayokunle, said yesterday in a statement that the festival is to commemorate the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God who commanded him to do so.

“CAN urges all Nigerian Muslims to remember this sacrificial lifestyle of Abraham as they rejoice and celebrate. They should know that no sacrifice is too great to promote peace, harmony, love, unity, forgiveness and accommodation in their relationship with those who are non-Muslims.

“God must have reasons for allowing both Christianity and Islam to co-exist in the country. We appeal to the adherents of both religions to embrace peace and love. Once this is done, most of the ongoing killings in Nigeria will become history; after all both religions traced their sources to Father Abraham,” Ayokunle said in the statement signed by his spokesman, Pastor Adebayo Oladeji.

According to him, the nation is in another election year, advising politicians to stop vote buying, violence, blood-letting and other evils associated with campaign and election.