BEVERLY HILLS, September 03, (THEWILL) – The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammed Sa’ad Abubakar III, has berated the Northern youths who issued a quit notice to the Igbos to leave the north on or before October 1 revealing that he was never in support of the ultimatum.
Although, the youths have since withdrawn the notice following the Intervention of some well-meaning Nigerians, the Islamic leader declared that “If anybody or group of persons plans negative attack on the Igbos it should be done to him first.”
Abubakar spoke in Sokoto when he received the World Igbo Union Leader, His Imperial Majesty (HIM) Sir Dr. Meshach Ahanta, as he assured him of the safety of Igbos.
On calls to restructure the nation, the Sultan explained that it does not mean separating or dividing Nigeria but simply means making adjustment here and there for equal accommodation to all and sundry in the country.
He said it was a purposeful agitation for pure equity and fair play religiously, socially and economically insisting that the agitation for pulling out by some people or calls for disintegration cannot solve any of the problems facing the country.
Abubakar also blamed the politicians for most of the problems bedeviling Nigerians and called on the electorates to ensure their votes go to credible persons seeking political offices.
“They come to you during campaigns, promise you heaven in your house, air conditions on all roads and milk entering your mouth hourly without any effort from you,” he said.
“As soon as they win, they zoom to Abuja and start planning or arranging comfort for themselves while some from rural areas move to state capital with careless abandonment of the voters.
“That is the only way forward even as I condemn all about the quit order, the violent method of agitations for independence, kidnappings, vandalisation and hiding under religion to kill through the use of suicide bombing instruments, believing that it will lead one to heaven.”
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