As Muslims commence the 30-day fasting called Ramadan, President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday promised Nigerians that his administration would work towards bringing relief to their lives.

He said he would achieve this through palliative
measures and faithful implementation of the 2016
national budget.

Buhari made the promise in his Ramadan message
made available to journalists by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.

According to the President, no elected government
would intentionally want to make life difficult for the
people that gave it the mandate to serve.

Buhari was also quoted as advising Muslims to use the holy month of Ramadan as opportunity for seeking forgiveness and getting closer to Allah
through worship and good deeds.

He described the month of Ramadan as a time of
spiritual reawakening which demands not only
abstention from food and drinks, but also all
wrongdoing in their lives.

The President explained that he is always disturbed
why people seek to make brisk profits by hiking food
prices as soon as the month of Ramadan starts.

He called on Muslim traders, businessmen and
women, civil servants and political office holders to
use the month of Ramadan to seek forgiveness of
God by abandoning wrong practices for personal
gains at the expense of others.

“According to the President, a religion should serve
as a moral restraint from bad practices, regretting
that those stealing national resources are merely
paying lip service to religion.

“He advised that anybody holding position of trust
should primarily remember that they would be
accountable one day either on earth or the
hereafter,” the statement read.