Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday tutored some secondary school students on the need to imbibe religious tolerance in the country.
Obasanjo spoke in Abeokuta, while responding to questions posed by some students from selected secondary schools that participated in the final of the National Exhibition and Awards.
It was organised by the Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE).
Obasanjo, also advised the students not to see their own religion as superior to that of another person.
The former president said that no one has the right to condemn or say what another man believed in was inferior to his own.
According to him, I have no right to say what another man believes in is inferior to mine.
“If God had wanted all of us to be of the same religion, he would have made it so and since He did not made it so, no person should attempt to make it so.
“Young people should learn at a very early age in life that if there are five religions in the world, that is how God wants it to be.
“If there are 10, that is how God want it. All religions originate from the same source.
“If you are a Muslim and you did not live the way God wants you to live, you can not enter Aljannah.
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“Or you are a Christian and you did not live the way God wants you to live, the same thing, you will not enter paradise.
“If this is the basis of religion, doing the right thing for the benefits of mankind, you don’t have to condemn any person, because of what he believes.
“Practice your religion the way God wants you to do it and don’t condemn another person,” the former president said. (NAN).
