President, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, and the Sultan of Sokoto, Dr Sa’ad Abubakar III, has insisted that the present security and developmental challenges facing Northern Nigeria was self inflicted by northerners themselves.
"Let us sit and talk freely and articulate positions that will bring us out of the quagmire we put ourselves. It is important that religious and traditional rulers from our various states sit together, so that each and everyone of us will talk freely for us to articulate a position as the way out of this problem we find ourselves."The Sultan spoke at the Northern Nigeria Governors Peace and Reconciliation Committee meeting in Kaduna, blaming northerners for inflicting heavy pains on themselves.
He said "We northerners have put ourselves in a quagmire, because whatever that is happening in the North is our own doing. This was because we did not do what we are supposed to do. And since we know that, we have to solve our problems ourselves. So, I think, it is not a bad idea that the committee was set up."
The Sultan stressed that Christianity and Islam in Nigeria should not be seen as an accident of history, but God’s design that cannot be changed by anyone.
According to him, the main problem in the North, and Nigeria in general, is bad governance and once that is addressed headlong, all other problems would be tackled too.
Thanks to Sultan Sa'ad for saying the whole truth...other Northern leaders leatn from this o
ReplyDeleteTrue talk
ReplyDeleteWe the youth in the north need to rise up against our useless leaders so that all this rubbish will stop, but anytime anythng happn d poverty stricken christian youth will start killing ordinary innocent muslim on the street, so tell me how we can end this problem wen thats wat the leaders want, poor man to kill poor man in d name of religion...........dan
ReplyDeleteThe Sultan has spoken!Pls let's respect our religions.God bless the Sultan.No body chooses his tribe and this most times determine the religion we adopt.An Igbo child will naturally be Christians while a Hausa/Fulani child will naturally tilt to Islam
ReplyDeleteit is one thing to talk and another to act. So lets see action and how it goes.
ReplyDeletewow!!! i never knew we still have people who stand for the truth... kudos to you Sultan of Sokoto
ReplyDeleteMai martaba may God bles u as u say d truth.
ReplyDeleteThese facts are real
ReplyDeleteTrue talk but d only way to avoid more problem is to divide d country and let North go their way.Enough is enough.
ReplyDeleteHmm God pls n pls touch ppl who wan 2 scata WAZOBIA mind so dat dey will stop killin innocient ppl
ReplyDeleteAre they just realizing that? Though its better late than never.
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