President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal to
meet tomorrow with a cross-section of
Muslim leaders in the southwest at
Ansarudeen Central Mosque, Ajao Surulere,
Lagos State, has met a brick wall, with most
of the religious figures indicating their
reluctance to attend. A source close to Mr.
Jonathan told SaharaReporters that, unless
there was a miraculous change of heart, the
meeting is unlikely to hold.
Our sources said former Minister of State
for Defense, Musiliu Obanikoro, had
arranged the meeting. Mr. Obanikoro now
faces growing public opprobrium over his
inglorious role in the rigging of last year’s
governorship election in Ekiti State. The
former minister is one of several politicians
of the ruling PDP caught on tape as they
ordered a top military officer, Brigadier A.
Momoh, to harass members of the APC in
Ekiti in a scheme designed to secure victory
for Ayo Fayose, the candidate of the PDP. Mr.
Fayose was declared the winner of the
election.
In a telephone conference, the secretary
general of the Supreme Council for Islamic
Affairs, Ishaq Oloyede, lauded the decision
of Muslim leaders not to participate in a
meeting designed to polarize and create
disunity among Muslims across the
geographical divide.
Northern Muslim leaders, including emirs,
had earlier opposed a meeting of all Muslim
leaders with Mr. Jonathan. Their objection
had scuttled an earlier meeting the
president had proposed with the entire
Muslim leaders in the country. Two major
Muslim leaders in the southwest disclosed
that a meeting between and Mr. Jonathan
would be a betrayal of the general decision
not to draw Muslim leaders in the country
into partisan conflicts.
The Muslim leaders also remarked that Mr.
Jonathan’s alleged gift of N7 billion to the
leaders of the Christian Association of
Nigeria (CAN) to encourage them to
mobilize political support for the president’s
re-election had left CAN in tatters. “It may
take a long time before the wound inflicted
on the umbrella organization for all
Nigerian Christians is healed,” said one
Muslim leader.
Another Muslim leader told SaharaReporters
that it was shameless to go about
distributing money that belongs to the
masses to a few religious leaders. “We want
the money to be used to better the lot of all
Nigerians,” said the source, an Islamic cleric
in Abeokuta.
One of the Muslim leaders also said it was
difficult to trust Mr. Jonathan who had
reneged on his promise to redress the
marginalization of Muslims in the
composition of last year’s national
conference. “When we complained about it,
Mr. President promised to redress it, but he
went back on his words when CAN
President, Ayo Oritsejafor, told him to
ignore us.”
Some of the Muslim leaders stated that Mr.
Jonathan had always ignored the pleas of
Muslims for fairness and equity in
appointments to top political appointments.
“He never sent an invitation to us to meet
with him before. Why is he now
enthusiastic to meet Muslims [a] few weeks
to the election,” one source asked.
SaharaReporters learned that the chief
imam of Ansarudeen mosque, Abdurahman
Ahmad, was given the assignment of telling
Mr. Jonathan and his team that the
southwest Muslim leaders were not
enthusiastic about meeting him.

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Let Jonathan meet them at the polls.

If he had done a good job over the last 5yrs he shouldn't be running from pillar to post now.

March 4 Buhari

Sleep for first

even d Christian brothers reject PDP led government .Gej will be disgrace from d government house ooo.

noisy fake muslims