Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III has called for use of Hijab by Muslim women without restrictions and in total observance of the freedom of religion in the country.
The monarch
made the call on Tuesday June 1, at the North West Zonal Public Hearing on the
Constitution Review organised by the House of Representatives for Stakeholders
from Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara in Birnin Kebbi.
President
Buhari today June 1 said a rude shock awaits those who are bent on destroying
the country through promoting insurrection and burning down critical national
assets.
The President
spoke after he received a briefing from the Chairman of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, on series of attacks
on facilities of the electoral body around the country.
“I receive
daily security reports on the attacks, and it is very clear that those behind
them want this administration to fail.
Insecurity in
Nigeria is now mentioned all over the world. All the people who want power,
whoever they are, you wonder what they really want. Whoever wants the
destruction of the system will soon have the shock of their lives. We’ve given
them enough time,” the President said.
President
Buhari recalled that he visited all the 36 states of the country before the
2019 election, “and a majority of the people believed me, and the election
proved it.” He promised to continue leading the country in accordance with
Constitutional provisions.
He said those
misbehaving in certain parts of the country were obviously too young to know
the travails and loss of lives that attended the Nigerian Civil War.
“Those of us
in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the
language they understand. We are going to be very hard sooner than later.”
The President
said the Service Chiefs and the Inspector General of Police have been changed,
“and we will demand security from them.”
On the
dangers posed to future elections by the burning of INEC facilities, President
Buhari said he would give the electoral commission all it needed to operate,
“so that no one would say we don’t want to go, or that we want a third term.
There will be no excuse for failure. We’ll meet all INEC’s demands.”
In his
briefing, Prof Yakubu said that so far, there have been 42 cases of attacks on
INEC offices nationwide, since the last General Election.
“The 42
incidents so far occurred in 14 states of the Federation for a variety of reasons….Most
of the attacks happened in the last seven months, and they are unrelated to
protest against previous elections. From the pattern and frequency of the most
recent attacks, they appear to be targeted at future elections. The intention
is to incapacitate the Commission, undermine the nation’s democracy and
precipitate a national crisis,” Prof Yakubu said.
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