God help Nigeria@ We Gave Jonathan Muslim Agenda To Implement – Sultan. **“but what is happening in the North is an unfortunate which has been forced on us, maybe the Almighty God wants to correct our ways. It did not allow us Check the Implementation". The Sultan of Sokoto and President, Jamatu Nasril Islam, JNI, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has saidthat Muslims gave President Goodluck Jonathan an agenda for implementation during the 2011 presidential election campaign. He, however, did not reveal the content of the agenda. This revelation came at a time the dust raised over the one-term agreement President Jonathan allegedly reached with governors in the build-up to the 2011 presidential election was yet to settle. The Sultan stated this at the nationalconference and pre-Ramadan meeting of JNI in Kaduna yesterday. He said that Nigeria would remain backward if people failed to correct a leader, adding that many things had gone wrong in the country. Abubakar advised the Federal Government amnesty committee to look into happenings in other parts of the country. He said: “During the election campaign, I remembered in this veryhall, President Jonathan requested to see the Muslim leaders under the Jamatu Nasril Islam, JNI. “It was in this very hall we listened to what he wanted to see us for, andwe gave him our agenda; the Muslim agenda, what we wanted from him. “Whether he has done what we wanted from him or not, it is a different thing all together because we have not really sat down to articulate the issue becauseso many things are happening that have taken the attention of this forum. “What is happening in the northern part of the country is an unfortunateincident which has been forced on us, maybe for so many reasons, maybe the Almighty God wants to correct our ways. “I want to state here that our main problems has been lack of unity, lackof consensus in whatever we do.. “We are very aware just like any other people across the world of the challenges facing us as Muslims, not only in Nigeria; we believe somebody somewhere is pulling the strings. “We are begging Allah for constant prayers from all of you; you are all distinguished Ulamas, we need constant prayers from the downtrodden to any other person, we shall overcome all these challenges and move to greater heights by the special grace of God. “We cannot move forward when we tell a leader he is always right, no leader is ever right in this circumstance. So many things have gone wrong in this country, and they are still going wrong. So many things are not working because the leaders refused to allow them to work
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:17:50 +0000
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