The Sokoto government has refuted claims made by MURIC that it is preparing to overthrow Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto.
The Sokoto government has refuted claims made by MURIC that it is preparing to overthrow Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto.
Sambo clarified that the legislation governing the selection and removal of the state's traditional rulers had not been altered or even rejected. In light of the events in Kano, Prof. Isiaq Akintola, the Executive Director of the Muslim Rights Council (MURIC), expressed concern on Monday about a scheme by the Sokoto state administration to remove His Eminence the Sultan of Sokoto.
In a statement, MURIC mentioned the dismissal of fifteen traditional rulers for different offenses. Prof. Akintola issued a warning in a statement, saying that the Sultan, who also happens to be the spiritual head of all Muslims in Nigeria, would face opposition and rejection from the Muslim Ummah.
Nonetheless, the Islamic organization voiced alarm over the supposed tense relationship between the Sultan and the state government. The organization noted that the Sultan of Sokoto serves as the head of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and said that the Sultan's eminence was both traditional and religious.
To avoid "forcing Nigerian Muslims to take a drastically revolutionary measure," the group issued a warning to the governor of Sokoto.
It said, “Feelers in circulation indicate that the governor may descend on the Sultan of Sokoto any moment from now using any of the flimsy excuses used to dethrone the 15 traditional rulers whom he removed earlier.
“MURIC advises the governor to look before he leaps. The Sultan’s stool is not only traditional, it is also religious. In the same vein, his jurisdiction goes beyond Sokoto. It covers the whole of Nigeria. He is the spiritual head of all Nigerian Muslims.
“Any governor who tampers with the stool of the Sultan will have Nigerian Muslims to reckon with because the Sultan combines the office of the Sultan of Sokoto and that of the President General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs ” says MURIC ..
In response to MURIC's alarm about the purported planned overthrow of the Sultan by the state administration in Sokoto, Vice President Kasheem Shettima stated that the Sultan is an institution that all Muslims must zealously defend.
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