Ulamas warn against removal of Dambazau

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Written by Ismail Mudashir,Kaduna   
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 22:14

Muslim clerics under the aegis of the Council of Imam and Ulama yesterday rose from an emergency meeting in Kaduna threatening to withdraw its allegiance to Acting President  Goodluck Jonathan should he sack the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Abdurahman Dambazau as advocated by the Northern Elders Christian Forum(NOSCEF).

NOSEF had after its quarterly meeting last weekend demanded the sack of the Chief of Army Staff and the Commander of Brigade of Guards for deploying troops along major roads in Abuja prior to President Umaru Yar'adua's arrival from Saudi Arabia without the consent of Jonathan.

Reading the communiqué issued at the end of the meeting in Kaduna, Secretary of the Ulama Council, Sheikh T. Suleiman, said the Acting President should be conscious of the fact that the Christians elders were not familiar with the workings of the national security system.

" We have noted the utterances by some Nigerians who have seemingly put the Muslims in this country on trial through various innuendoes and direct insult on the personality of the president who they  see more as a Muslim than an ailing president,'' the forum said.

The council warned that the Muslim community would not keep quiet and allow the Christians elders  treat national and political issues from a a purely evangelistic perspective.

The group while condemning the composition of the National Policy Advisory Committee said the Acting President was not fair to Muslims. According to the forum, what Nigeria needs at this crucial  moment is a display of mature political sense.

Daily Trust