Northern Muslim Youths Knock Cleric Over Controversial Post

A group under the auspices of Northern Youths Council of Nigeria has berated an Islamic cleric Sheik Mansur Sokoto over his controversial post on Facebook.

Sheik Sokoto, in a Facebook post titled “Islam and the North”, claimed that Islam in Taraba and Nasarawa states would be endangered if the baton of administrative power falls into the hands of non-Muslims.

“Review of the governorship legal tussles of some states these days is worrisome. If Taraba and Nasarawa fall to non-Muslims, then Islamic religion will be endangered,” he wrote.

Reacting, the youth group in a statement signed by its National President, Isah Abubakar, warned Sheikh Sokoto and other clerics to desist from heating the polity through interfering in political affairs as well as judicial proceedings, adding that “this may cause disunity among Nigerians as well as intimidation and threats to court rulings which in turn threatens our relative peace and democracy”.

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“As Muslims and Northerners, we wonder where Sheikh Sokoto got his own teachings as Islam preaches good governance over faith.

“To us, his post was just his mere speculations and personal opinion. We wish to advise the Sheikh to instead focus on how to bring forth ideas on how to curtail the excesses of kidnapping, banditry and cattle rustling which has become a pandemic in the up North States governed by Muslim governors,” the group stated.

In its closing remarks, the group said; “We wish to state categorically that MR David Ombugadu the Governor-elect of Nasarawa state who is Sheikh Sokoto’s reason for the outburst served diligently as a member of the HOR between 2011 – 2019. Record has it that he served his people without any form of discrimination between both Christians and Muslims in his constituency, therefore suggesting that the mandate given to him by the people of Nasarawa State be taken away from him on a religious basis is a threat to democracy and un-Islamic, even in Taraba state where the elected was clearly won by the current Governor it’s uncalled for anybody to try to influence judiciary using a religion card”.

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