ABUJA (AFP) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan met the country’s main Muslim spiritual leader Tuesday after Christmas Day attacks blamed on Islamists that killed 40, including worshippers as they left church.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, made no comment as he entered Jonathan’s official residence on Tuesday afternoon.

Muslim leaders have come under pressure to take a more active role in seeking to stop attacks by Islamist group Boko Haram, which claimed responsibility for the Christmas violence.

Dis Guy:

nothing commendable about it, too much importance is attached to kings and sultans in nigeria

the reality is they have no direct effect on the people around them


GEJ should be asking why the SSS have arrested more journalist than boko haram members this year

oyb:

thats cold man  

he should also ask the police why they stopped more demonstrations than crimes

nagoma:

It is a very good move but but[b] finding out who the criminals are and who their sponsors are[/b] and punishing them is still the Presidents job. If they believe the sultan is to blame they should place him on dock and judge and punish him. Enough of this "passing the buck" while the country boils to evaporation with death and speculations. I pity GEJ but I also pity the Sultan.

Dis Guy:

2012 will even be worse for nigerians chances are he will go overboard trying to look tough and with N900b in the kitty chei

OK_2_NV:

All of you condemning GEJ should pause and appreciate the enormity of the problems currently plaguing Nigeria. How do you tackle an enemy within your borders who's main ideological inspiration for waging cowardly attacks on innocent civilians in the most barbaric form belongs in the 7th century?
How do you reconcile their demands for a uniformity in the personal religious beliefs within a country who's diversity and heterogeneity is as widespread as it's population? Boko Haram is not a GEJ problem it's a collective problem, what we all need now is to stand by the only unifying symbol of our collective existence as one nation, Nigeria.
From all indications Boko-Haram are part of a script to cause disunity and war amongst us.

Nashville:

Both men are part of the problem and I believe they are treating Boko Haram with "kid's glooves". The extremist Sultan has not condemned Boko Haram and stopped short of saying they are justified to carry out such bombings. Jonathan on the other hand has said they are a burden we all have to live with. So my question is what good can come out of a meeting of these two idiots.

I believe they both know the sponsors of Boko Haram and they are meeting on trying to find a way to "settle" the sponsors with money, political appointments or access to Oil blocks.

Kinikini:

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This Sultan is a repulsive bas.t.a.r.d who should be deposed and thrown behind bars. Such a hideous piece of scum. I really don't know the right words with which to describe the i.d.i.ot.

Poster, this is an abuse of your freedom to self expression. Na wa o.

Kinikini:

Quote from pro01
This Sultan is a repulsive bas.t.a.r.d who should be deposed and thrown behind bars. Such a hideous piece of scum. I really don't know the right words with which to describe the i.d.i.ot.

Poster, this is an abuse of your freedom to self expression. Na wa o.