AGAIN YARIMA LEADS MUSLIM CLERICS TO VILLA. A former governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmad Sani Yarima, yesterday led three Muslim clerics to the State House in Abuja to pray for President Goodluck Jonathan. A source in the Presidency told Daily Trust last night that the prayer session was held at the president’s office for about 45 minutes. The source, who pleaded anonymity, said the prayer commenced at about 10.30am and ended around 11.15am. The prayer session was conducted in Arabic. He, however, said he could not confirm the purpose for which the prayer was conducted. In July Yarima also led a team of Muslim clerics to the President claiming they were there to pray for peace in the country, and not to further any political goal. But sources said then that Yarima took prominent Muslim clerics from around the country to Jonathan’s to further his yet-to-be declared second-term ambition and to also try to supplant Vice President Namadi Sambo on the presidential ballot in 2015. Those that attended the July meeting were a representative of Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, Sheikh Yusuf Sambo Rigachukun, Prof Tijjani Al-Miskin and Zamfara deputy governor Ibrahim Wakkala Muhammad, who was commissioner in Yarima’s cabinet when he was governor. Sourceshad told Daily Trust that Yarima had sold the idea that he was the only one who could rally round Muslim clerics to support Jonathan’s candidature given his well-known Sharia credentials. Yarima, now a senator, was the first governor to introduce Sharia before several other states in the North followed suit in 2000-2003. The Muslim clerics who attended the July meeting with Jonathan under the aegis of the National Ulama Consultative Forum were from different parts of the country. Yarima was not available for comments yesterday. The identity of those who attended yesterday’s meeting along with him could not be established as at press time. -DAILY TRUST
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:40:59 +0000
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