The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has threatened to resort to radical revolution against Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu, if he deposes the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III.
MURIC issued the threat in a statement issued on Monday by its founder and Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, in reaction to Governor Aliyu’s reported deposition of 15 traditional rulers in the state.
Akintola stated that Sultan Muhammad Sa’d Abubakar is not only the Sultan of Sokoto but the Sultan of the Nigerian people. His performance and style of leadership have warmed him into the hearts of Nigerians.
In the statement, MURIC said that Nigerian Muslims reject any thought of deposing the Sultan, threatening that if the Sultan is deposed, it will lead to nationwide radical revolution as Sultan’s stool is not only traditional but also religious and his jurisdiction goes beyond Sokoto.
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The statement partly reads, “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.
“Therefore, 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 (NSCIA).
” Once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, the third time is enemy action. If the deposition of a Sultan and NSCIA leader happens a second time, Nigerian Muslims will not allow the embarrassment to happen a third time.”
MURIC therefore called on the Sokoto State House of Assembly to either repeal or review the state’s chieftaincy laws by granting immunity to the Sultan.
It further urged the state lawmakers to add the phrase ‘except the Sultan of Sokoto’ to Section 6, Cap 26 of the Laws of Northern Nigeria which empowers the state governor to depose emirs including the Sultan.
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