NATIONAL CONFAB DELEGATES DID NOT FAVOUR MUSLIM...SULTAN

Ebele Goodluck Jonathan’s theatre company called National Confab can be liking to Chief Moses Olaiya’s ‘Alawada  ‘where you can expect anything in term jokes, hilarious, ribs-cracking laughter etc.

This led me to issues raised by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, when he led eminent Nigerian comprising of the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn-Garbai; a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Lawal Uwais; and a former Head of Service of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed to Aso rock on the issue that the 

National Confab delegate did not favoured the Muslim!!!

The Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs  Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who spoke for the group said:

“We just felt that we must convey the feelings of the Muslims in Nigeria to Mr. President and he has given us his words to re-assure the Muslim community that he is a genuine and committed Christian who will not be unjust to others.”

.“May be because you are not a Muslim, if you were  one, you  would know the feelings of the Muslims presently about the composition of the National Conference,” he concluded.

 “What is most disturbing is that the Muslim leadership and Islamic groups have called the attention of the President  to this matter but he has paid no attention to it.

 “We are however worried that the process of selecting participants to the conference has been observed to have thrown away all known dictates of fair representation in a democracy, which will no doubt affect the credibility of the outcome of the conference. Although, democracy is a game of number, this has not been respected.

“We find it a great disregard and disrespect to the conscience of the Muslims that of the 20 delegates of the Federal Government, only six are Muslims. No Muslim is deemed fit to make the list of the Nigerian Economic Summit

“In fact, in the representation of the security agencies, Muslims have been so unimaginably short-changed with only one Muslim out of the six retired military and security personnel.”

My questions are what is a Muslim or been a Christians got to do with good government for God sake, are we not all citizen of Nigeria, it is also in the record that majority of the so-called selected delegates are between the ages of 65-75 years!!!  All these old brigades should have give the space to young vibrant, productive Nigerian, who will never sleep in a public gathering.

The people that are suppose to go and deliberates on the problems facing majority of Nigerian like, unemployment, insecurity, redistribution of the national wealth between the rich and the poor, true and authentic federalism, complete devolution of power, self determination for the minority groups, resource control, Local Government policing, creation of political institutions that would enhance economic development, and challenge of leadership, education, housing, health care and other meaningful things that will make the life of ordinary citizen better,  went there to talk about religion. This issue of religion is what they always use to cause the problems  and division in the country today.

Chief Richard Osuolale Akinjide, second Republic minister and the father of the current minister of state FCT, Jumoke Akinjide, is one of the tired senior citizen, this is year 2014 and not 1977 when he was a vibrant lawyer, am so sure if it had been 1977, he would never get tired not to talk of sleeping at the forum of this magnitude. You can see him in the picture above where he is he observing the call of nature.

The National Conference members’, how do you do in Abuja?