Don’t play politics with peoples lives- Sultan

From Ahmed Kaigama Bauchi

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III haswarned politicians to stop playing politics with people’s lives and take proactive measures to ensure peace reigns in all parts of the country.
While condemning all forms of violence and crimes emanating from different sections of the society, the sultan emphasized that the federal government must probe the recent crisis in Mambilla, Taraba state that claimed many lives.
The Sultan stated this when he paid a visit to traditional religious worshipers at Miya village in Ganjuwa local government area of Bauchi state at the weekend.
The Sultan paid a visit to the village to inspect a school being constructed by him for the people of the area, while three persons from the traditional religious worshipers renounced their former religion and converted to Islam.
He emphasized the need for the Da’awa Council to ensure that Nigerian Muslims were understood rather than just being tolerated by the adherents of other religions in the country.
This is just as he called on all Nigerians to come together, irrespective of their different affiliations to resolve national issues that have in recent times become maters of national discourse, noting that all disagreements could only be resolved through dialogues and not violence or confrontations.
He also urged the federal government to handle the controversy surrounding the issue of teaching religious subjects in secondary schools with caution and avoid heating up the polity unnecessarily.
The Sultan tasked those engaged in Da’awa to propagate Islam in the best manner and urged all Muslims to be good ambassadors of the religion by exhibiting good conduct always as thought by the religion.

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