{"id":439757,"date":"2011-06-12T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/12\/blame-boko-haram-killings-on-politicians-%e2%80%93-sultan\/"},"modified":"2011-06-12T00:04:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T00:04:10","slug":"blame-boko-haram-killings-on-politicians-sultan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/12\/blame-boko-haram-killings-on-politicians-sultan\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame Boko Haram killings on politicians \u2013 Sultan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Jide Ajani<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sultan of Sokoto,\u00a0Alhaji Saad\u00a0 Abubakar, has declared that politicians have failed the people of Nigeria just as he maintained that politicians sometimes create crises and give them religious colouration.<\/p>\n

The Sultan also said the issue of Islamic fundamentalism and the crises in the country\u00a0 associated with it can be traced to the activities of politicians who arm and give the youths money to create crises.<\/p>\n

Abubakar, however, noted that the fundamentalists are in the minority.<\/p>\n

He spoke yesterday on a Cable News Network, CNN, programme African Voices. Islamic fundamentalism has, of late, been a sore point in the polity with the Boko Haram sect, opposed to western education, unleashing terror in some parts of the North, particularly in Borno and Bauchi states.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scores of lives have been lost to the group\u2019s activities including high profile politicians and law enforcement agents.\u00a0 Only last week, a cleric who was gunned down in Maiduguri, Borno State, capital, became the latest victim of Boko Haram.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Speaking on the fundamentalists, the Sultan said:<\/p>\n

\u201dEvery where you have bad eggs who do not agree with what you are doing but they are always in the minority; so you don\u2019t have much problem but the majority are the ones that matter. The majority are the ones who really matter and we are the majority\u201d.<\/p>\n

Responding to a question on the role of politicians and the failure to engage constructive development of the nation, he said: \u201dIf you say politicians have failed them, then you are quite right \u201dThe politicians are the ones who even arm these people. \u201d They give them money. \u201d They arm them. \u201dBut like I\u2019ve said, they are in the minority.\u201d The majority of us are peace loving and we are out for a peace-loving Nigeria\u201d.<\/p>\n

Asked if traditional rulers have also failed the young men who are involved in Islamic fundamentalism, the Sultan gave an emphatic \u201cNO\u201d response.<\/p>\n

The Sultan re-affirmed that the traditional institution has not failed the people.<\/p>\n

On the issue of religious crisis, he admitted thus: \u201dThere could be a few cases of religious crises in some places but most of the crises we have in this country (that some people link to religion) are not religious.\u00a0 They are politically motivated and given the colouration of religion\u201d.<\/p>\n

Abubakar said he was \u201cvery concerned about recent developments whereby politicians use people to create crises and then try to link it with religion.\u00a0 I am very concerned about that.<\/p>\n

Even when the president called us to have a talk with us, I brought it up that politicians should have<\/p>\n

issue-related campaigns and not about personalities or ethnicity and I have always made it clear that no Christian politician can win an (presidential) election with purely Christian votes and no Muslim politician can win with purely Muslim votes.\u00a0 Nigeria\u2019s population is divided between both religions.<\/p>\n

\u201dI cannot force you to accept my religion, the Almighty said so in the Quoran.\u00a0 You go your way I go my way and these two ways lead to the Almighty.\u00a0 It is for the Almighty to determine which of these two ways is better to get through to Him and that is not for you and I; so there should be no problem of converting people by force.\u00a0 We preach peace always\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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