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"It is not really that strange for a Northern Nigerian Hausa, Fulani or Kanuri, who speaks Hausa is a Muslim, to also have bloodline relationships in the Niger Republic or the rest of the Sahel."
A businessman in northern Nigeria, Mahdi Shehu, has lambasted Islamic clerics including Sheikhs, Mallams and Ulamas for keeping quiet amid growing hardship, rising insecurity and killings in the country under President Bola Tinubu’s government. According to Shehu, the Islamic clerics went silent after convincing Nigerians, especially the Muslims to believe that a Muslim-Muslim ticket of Tinubu and Kashim Shettima was best for them.
Former Nigerian Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar has stated that none of the parties involved in the present political crisis in Niger Republic is eager to go to war. Abdulsalami said this while addressing newsmen after his meeting with President Bola Tinubu at Aso Villa in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. He warned that going to war will not benefit anybody. The former head of state added that his delegation’s meeting with Niger Republic coup leaders over the weekend was fruitful.