By; Mohammad Ibrahim, Kaduna.
Sultan of Sokoto and the President-General of the Jama’atu Nasirl Islam (JNI), Alhaji Mohammad Sa’ad Abubakar III will lead a prayer session for the crises in Southern Kaduna and the quick recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari slated for Sunday March 5, 2017 in Kaduna State.
Addressing a joint press conference at the JNI headquarters, the Secretary-General, JNI and the state chairman of the Council of Imam’s and Ulama, Dr, Khalid Aliyu Abubakar and Sheikh Baban Tune respectively said the Vice President-General, JNI and Emir of Zazzau, Dr. Shehu Idris, the Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasiru El-Rufai, Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, security agencies and distinguished Islamic Scholars too numerous to mention will be in attendance at the event.
According to them, the event will deliberate on the southern Kaduna issue and the ill health of President Muhammadu Buhari which has now become an issue of discussion in all nooks and crannies of the country right from the upper and lower chambers of the legislative chambers of the country, that is why the Sultan of Sokoto, ordered that JNI comes together with the Council of Imam’s and Ulama who is a formidable council of those who steer the affairs of our Mosques by leading prayers and giving sermons on Friday and lead the prayer.
“It is a religious duty for us to work together in order to seek Allah’s intervention, to relive us of these trying moments, is very important. Preparation is in top gear and come Sunday, March 5th, 2017 the prayer session will hold in Kaduna and we pray that it brings the state out of this quagmire bedeviling the country and may He grant our President good health to come back and continue steering the leadership of the country.”
They prayed to Allah to relive the country of the ‘pang’ of poverty in the country adding, “May Allah relieve the state of this cancer of violent conflicts in southern Kaduna and bring relive in the North East and other parts of the country where we have such skirmishes.”
They assured that they will not do anything that will go against the laws of the land but seek to find solutions to the cancer of insecurity bedeviling the state.
