President, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, and the Sultan of Sokoto, Dr Sa’ad Abubakar III, has insisted that the present security and developmental challenges facing Northern Nigeria was self inflicted by northerners themselves.
"Let us sit and talk freely and articulate positions that will bring us out of the quagmire we put ourselves. It is important that religious and traditional rulers from our various states sit together, so that each and everyone of us will talk freely for us to articulate a position as the way out of this problem we find ourselves."The Sultan spoke at the Northern Nigeria Governors Peace and Reconciliation Committee meeting in Kaduna, blaming northerners for inflicting heavy pains on themselves.
He said "We northerners have put ourselves in a quagmire, because whatever that is happening in the North is our own doing. This was because we did not do what we are supposed to do. And since we know that, we have to solve our problems ourselves. So, I think, it is not a bad idea that the committee was set up."
The Sultan stressed that Christianity and Islam in Nigeria should not be seen as an accident of history, but God’s design that cannot be changed by anyone.
According to him, the main problem in the North, and Nigeria in general, is bad governance and once that is addressed headlong, all other problems would be tackled too.
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