ichommy: KADUNA—The Sultan of Sokoto and President, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Dr. Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday said that the present security and developmental challenges facing Northern Nigeria was self inflicted by northerners themselves.

The Sultan spoke at the Northern Nigeria Governors Peace and Reconciliation Committee meeting in Kaduna, blaming northerners for inflicting heavy pains on themselves.

His words, “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.

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.
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RECONCILIATION—From left: Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan; Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Mathew Kukah and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, at a meeting of the Northern States Committee on Reconciliation in Kaduna, yesterday. Photo: Olu Ajayi.

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“We wrote a memo of about nine pages or thereabout covering various issues affecting the country and the north in particular to the then Acting President and now President. Goodluck Jonathan, through the Nigeria Inter Religious Council, NIREC, where we suggested solutions to the problems.’’

In his own remarks, the Catholic Bishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, attributed the security challenges facing the North and the country in general to high level of poverty in the country and the region in particular.

Onaiyekan further said that another aspect of the problem was associated with religion, saying that, bad image of the country has spread to the outside world and there was need for the stakeholders to address the issue with a view to putting a permanent end to the problems.

Bad governance

He 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 country was bad governance and once that is addressed headlong, all other problems would be tackled too.

Kukah hails Sultan, Onaiyekan

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Mathew Kukah, in his remarks lauded the participation of both Sultan Abubakar and Cardinal Onaiyekan saying, “With the Sultan and our amiable Cardinal as members of this committee, we should have the confidence that all sides will be well represented and every view honestly put down with suggested solutions. We also hope that the government would play its own parts when this assignment is finished.”



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uchlukez: Nemesis

Omexonomy: If they know all these why blaming gej gov. May God help them thrugh thier problem.
To all those of you muslims given islam and nigeria bad name i have nothing to say.

tendercharles: Dear Sultan, i would have said 'now you know' but would rather say 'now you are talking' coz u have known it long ago.

PHIPEX: So many Northerners will be sad with this news, they must have expected him to tell them that it was the FG under GEJ that withdrew the Children of the Northerners from school and made them Almajiris? They must have expected that he should have told the Governors that it was the inability of the South to respect PDP zoning arrangement that made the North poor and insecure. The Northerners would have been happier if he had said them that it was the Christians from the South that have stolen all the oil money allocation that was meant for the north's development.

Now Boko Haram, Elrufai and Sanusi will be so disappointed with the Sultan.

Okija_juju: Erm.... Before Nko?! Who again dey bomb una if not una fellow Muslims..