By Emmanuel Aziken

Former minister of aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan and asked  the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari,  to restrain himself from inciting the country into a civil war.

While calling on Buhari to find grace to accept defeat, Fani-Kayode, in a statement, yesterday, called on the CPC candidate to nudge his supporters into giving peace a chance in Nigeria  as he warned that the alleged actions of his supporters were inimical to the survival of the country.

He said: “I congratulate President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on his victory in the presidential election  and I hereby call on General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the  election  to sheath his sword. I also urge him to tread the path of decency and honour by calling on his supporters to stop killing people and to stop committing all these barbaric and outrageous atrocities in the north.

“The fact that he didn’t win the election proves that he has been rejected by God and the people and no amount of violence, murder, arson, intimidation, court cases, or litigation can change that. “We must give peace a chance in Nigeria and, no matter what, we must stop the bloodshed, calm everyone down and pull our nation back from the brink. Any attempt to rob President Goodluck Jonathan of his mandate will result in a reaction that would be far worse than anything that has ever been witnessed or experienced in this nation before.

“I appeal to those around General Buhari to tell him to stop all his tough talk, to cultivate the grace to accept defeat in good faith and to behave like the elder statesman that I have always believed him to be.”