Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammed Sa’ad Abubakar

Sultan blames injustice for crises.

The Sultan of Sokoto and President General of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam and the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Mohammed Sa’ad Abubakar said the current problems in the country were caused by the level of injustice being perpetrated by the nation’s leaders.

Abubakar said “I want to make it very clear that the problems facing us in this country are largely due to injustice meted out to some people and if you are talking of injustice, we don’t have good governance and if there is no good governance, there cannot be good people.

According to him, “If there are no good people, you can’t have a good nation. And that is why we keep on having such problems”.

The Sultan lamented the level of ignorance in the nation’s body polity saying “there is a lot of ignorance in the polity, Christians don’t know what their religion teaches them, Muslims don’t know what Islam is all about; that is ignorance.

So, we must wake up and educate ourselves very well about what Islam is. And Christians too must wake and educate themselves about what Christianity is.

“Ignorance and moral decay are the same problems that caused the decay of our infrastructure in the country such as lack of electricity, lack of good roads, lack of good governance, lack of everything.

“Moral decay in the sense that people know what they are supposed to do because they are educated, either religious leaders, political leaders but they have refused to do so, instead they turn the other way.

“So, it is important for us to understand who we are. We are Muslims; yes, we are. But do we live our lives as Muslims? Whatever our part is, in whatever you do, not only here, but in all your meetings, please get across to us and what role do we play.

“As leaders we can’t do anything without knowing what you want us to do and that is why Islam is so serious about consultation by leaders with those they are leading. Because, if we don’t know what problems we are facing, we cannot proffer solution to such problems.