Islamisation: Sultan blasts Igbo leaders.

Sokoto – The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has reacted to a recent accusation by the Igbo Leaders of Thought accusing President Buhari’s administration of plotting to Islamise Nigeria, ThisDay reports. The Sultan said he was worried that people who were supposed to be elder state men could make such provocative comments. His…

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Sokoto – The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has reacted to a recent accusation by the Igbo Leaders of Thought accusing President Buhari’s administration of plotting to Islamise Nigeria, ThisDay reports.

The Sultan said he was worried that people who were supposed to be elder state men could make such provocative comments.

His words: “I am always worried when Nigerians who are supposed to be elder statesmen make provocative comments about this government trying to Islamise Nigeria.

“I keep on asking how? How do you Islamise a country like Nigeria that is probably 80 million Muslims (in population) but we agreed that we are 50-50.

“Are you going to invite America? Somebody so naive even said the visit of the United States Secretary of State was to strengthen the Islamisation of programme of the leadership of the country.” 

The Sultan also stated that it is wrong to ascribe the violence associated with Fulani herdsmen to an Islamic agenda.

 “The problem with herdsmen and farmers is purely about economy. The herdsman wants food for his cattle, the farmer wants his farm produce to feed his family.

“We have tried to broker peace with Fulanis and Tivs in Nasarawa and Benue states. I have been to Makurdi four times for such meetings.

“So people should stop making this noise about Islamisation and herdsmen being used to islamise the country and so many negative things” the Sultan said.

One response to “Islamisation: Sultan blasts Igbo leaders.”

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    He is talking rubbish. who is sultan to blast igbo leaders, a nobody, just because he has one title as sultan of sokoto. That is absurd. there are remarkable comment made by the so called sultan of sokoto, that muslims population is 80 million and they agreed to share the country equitably, is a slap on igbos and christians. The gap is incomparable in the sense that christians populations are far more than the muslims in Nigeria. That they agreed to co-exist with us is a dastard statement that should be corrected by the igbos in diaspora.That comment is provocative and needed to be addressed properly , so that such will not come out from his. Hausa has land mass, population wise, we are bigger than them, health wise, academic wise, entreprenureral wise, and so on.The so called sultan should mind the kind word he is using or,it might result into what he may not like. Before amalgamation, we lived a separate life,and igbo never agreed to co- exist with any until the time of amalgamation. in terms of islamisation, there is atom of truth in it.The present government want to exert dominance in all region, especially in the south – Eastern states. i bet him, igbos will resist them to the last. The whole thing is gradually coming out. The other time, one hausa man said igbo land is conquered territory, that they have every right to do what they like, which is practicably impossible.The comment of sultan shows that, every thing they are doing is discussed by the caliphate and emirs to bring down some group they perceived threat to them.

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