The president is currently on a private visit to France.
The president said that palliatives were being put in place to address the pains that Nigerians were going through.
NIREC called on religious leaders to resist political manipulation of religion that could lead to anarchy.
Nigerians must begin to wrest the narrative from this horde.
He said that voting a person because of his region or religion as against capacity would not improve the wellbeing of the people.
“I am 23 years old. I’ve never seen a picture of the prophet, never in my whole entire life, and it breaks my heart that a professor who is supposed to be my role model.”
“Some people use religion as sentiment, but with adequate education, people are seeing through it now.”
“Ordinary Nigerians have no problem with religion. It is the manipulation and systemic manipulation of our different identities that is responsible for our violence.”
Hadi Matar, 24, said Mr Rushdie, 75, was “someone who attacked Islam” but did not confirm that his actions were driven by a fatwa issued by Iran in the 1980s.
The bishop said Mr Soludo should address the issue of religious and denominational politics which had plagued Anambra for a long time.