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Osinbajo, Sultan, Tinubu, Ooni, others urge Nigerians to shun divisive moves
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By Ishola Balogun
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, Sultan of Sokoto and President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) Alhaji Muhammed Sa’ad Abubakar including other eminent personalities have urged Nigerians to shun divisive moves by some ill-informed persons to plunge Nigeria into chaos through call for secession.
The leaders opined that more needed to be done in teaching younger Nigerians about the nation’s history.
They spoke during the launch of a book entitled ‘Islam in Yorubaland: History, Education and Culture’, by Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN), held at Radisson Hotel, Ikeja GRA, Lagos, Wednesday.
Represented by the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, the Vice President said: “This well-researched work of history, no doubt, has benefited from the rich career of the authors whom I was told are affiliated to Yorubaland by birth and to Islam by choice.
“It, therefore, follows that the book before us can be classified as the most authoritative in our recent history as far as the history of Islam in Yorubaland is concerned.
“I congratulate the authors in particular and MUSWEN in general on this knowledge of history of Islam in Nigeria, with particular reference to the South West, a region erroneously believed not to have very significant Muslim population in the country.”