Now this is what I call Alliance for National Interest!!!
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has
berated the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), for attacking the Sultan of Sokoto and the President-General of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji
Muhammed Abubakar Sa'ad, over his amnesty call for the Boko Haram sect.
MURIC's director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in
a statement in Ibadan yesterday, said instead of throwing stones at the Sultan,
the leadership of CAN should join him and the federal government to find a lasting
solution to the ongoing destruction of life and property in Northern Nigeria.
The group which charged religious leaders
to watch their pronouncements and control their emotions said that it amounts to double standard "if we are willing to grant amnesty in one case but determined to
'crush' with military might in another.
According to MURIC, Federal Government declared amnesty for the Niger Delta
militants when a Muslim was in government
and the nation benefitted from it.
It explained that the current Sultan was
the best thing that had happened to the Nigerian Muslim Ummah in decades saying,"We repose full confidence in his
person and admire his style of leadership.
"Mobile and articulate, Sultan Abubakar III is a great inspiration for us. He is a leader with great integrity, a patriot primus inter peres and a statesman nulli
secundus. "We will therefore not stand akimbo while some people treat him with
disrespect. We remind CAN that respect begets respect," it said.The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has berated the leadership of the Christian
Association of Nigeria (CAN), for
attacking the Sultan of Sokoto and the President-General of the Supreme Council
for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji
Muhammed Abubakar Sa'ad, over his amnesty call for the Boko Haram sect.
MURIC's director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in
a statement in Ibadan yesterday, said instead of throwing stones at the Sultan, the leadership of CAN should join him and the federal government to find a lasting
solution to the ongoing destruction of life and property in Northern Nigeria.
The group which charged religious leaders
to watch their pronouncements and control
their emotions said that it amounts to
double standard "if we are willing to grant
amnesty in one case but determined to 'crush' with military might in another.
"Perhaps CAN is secretly eyeing American
drones stationed in Niger Republic. We should not forget that when a hen perches
on a rope, neither the rope nor the hen can
be stable," MURIC said.
While supporting the Sultan's call for amnesty for Boko Haram, it affirmed that this will not be the first time Nigeria was
granting amnesty to dissident groups.
According to MURIC, Federal Government declared amnesty for the Niger Delta militants when a Muslim was in government
and the nation benefitted from it.
It explained that the current Sultan was the best thing that had happened to the
Nigerian Muslim Ummah in decades
saying,"We repose full confidence in his person and admire his style of leadership.
"Mobile and articulate, Sultan Abubakar III is a great inspiration for us. He is a
leader with great integrity, a patriot
primus inter peres and a statesman nulli
secundus. "We will therefore not stand akimbo while some people treat him with
disrespect.
We remind CAN that respect
begets respect," it said.
Culled from All African Press.
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