Kwara: Islamic scholars fault move to install woman gov
From Hammed Shittu in Ilorin, 05.26.2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

As Kwarans await the emergence of the governorship candidate of the ruling Peoples Democractic Party (PDP) for the 2011 general elections, Islamic scholars in the state have called on stakeholders saddled with the task of picking the candidate to desist from presenting a woman governorship or deputy governorship candidate for the election.





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The group, under the banner of Islamic Scholars of Ilorin, in a communiqué issued Monday and made available to newsmen, said any such move would be against the will of Allah. They said the Sharia position on female leadership is subsidiary and not to occupy the grand leadership of any society.

The communiqué read in part: “We as descendants and disciples of Sheikh Aalim, Sheikh Kamaldeen Al-Adabiyy, Sheikh Adam Al-llory and many other scholars, therefore see it as our collective obligation before our creator, then as a duty we owe those erudite scholars of our beloved town of Islamic principle to set the records straight on the position of Islam in such a case.

“This is being done without any motive to either support or work against the candidacy of any aspirant. “While it is unequivocally stated in Sharia literature that a woman can occupy, and indeed women have occupied, the position of subsidiary leadership, as ministers, commissioners etc, the grand leadership of a state or a nation is exclusively for men as the masculinity is usually stated conspicuously, as a prerequisite for the position of leadership of a state or a nation.

“Leadership in Islam is a responsibility and not a privilege; hence, restriction of grand leadership to males alone never suggests discrimination against women. The fact we had/have female leaders in very few muslims countries-compared to the overwhelming majority of them.”

Too many morons in Kwara State.

we have been through this before - a case of using any means necessary to break the saraki's stranglehold io kwara state is all this is.

Fighting women will not solve it, will it?. If you disqualify his female candidate, he will present a male version of the first candidate. Kwarans should pray for the God that answered the prayers of Oyo indigenes by taking away the life of Adedibu. Until death will Saraki part with Kwara.

if the Nigerian constitution allows for female Governors,why cant they conteset election. abeg those imams and alfas should go and eat some grass

Cohomology:

Too many morons in Kwara State.

You must be a fool.

what they should be fighting against is the saraki godfatherism in the state

The truth is we do not want to face the real reality and gravity of the calamity that be-fail Kwarans, we are just paying a lip service to the whole issue. the issuance of this FATWA at this point and time is un-call for, why didn't they issue it 2007 if really they know what justice represent in the face of ALLAH.

Jarrah:

The truth is we do not want to face the real reality and gravity of the calamity that be-fail Kwarans, we are just paying a lip service to the whole issue. the issuance of this FATWA at this point and time is un-call for, why didn't they issue it 2007 if really they know what justice represent in the face of ALLAH.

Does it matter when it was issued?. What matters is the fact that women are still seen as goats incapable of leading humans in Islam. Whatever a man can do, a woman can also do if not better. By 2020, there will must be at least one female who will be the  current Oba of Lagos, Olu of Warri, Alaafin of Oyo, Obi of Onitsha, Sarduana of Sokoto or Oba of Benin. Nigerian men should learn to deal with it.

Moronic.

udezue:

Moronic.

Igbotic

That 100% better than being Moronic.

Something's definitely wrong with those alfas and imams, when it comes to politics they are always womenophobic as if the woman gonna ruin their lives, they dnt knw that a lady may run things better than those big-headed male politicians.