The Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has declared
that any elected governor in the country who steals public funds needs
deliverance from God.
The need for the deliverance of such a governor, as
according to him, was because governors are well provided for such that only a
diabolical person would resort to stealing.
He stated this at the weekend during the closing
ceremony of the 23rd National Quranic Recitation Competition organised by the
Jamaatul Izalatul Bid'ah Wa Ikamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS) in Lafia, the state
capital.
According to him, "Any person elected as
governor of a state has no justification to steal public funds. So anyone
elected as governor and is found stealing public funds requires deliverance
from God.
“When I assumed office as governor, I realised that
only those who have no true knowledge about God or those whose major
preoccupation is to steal public funds, could steal. Any person who is a
governor and still steals public funds, such a person is in need of deliverance
from God."
Sule used the occasion to call on scholars and
educated elites to join politics as a way of bringing sanity to the system.
He, therefore, dismissed insinuations that one must
be wealthy before joining politics, stressing that as long as religious
scholars avoid politics, then they should be prepared to elect leaders who will
betray their trust.
The governor equally called on Islamic scholars not
to relent in telling the people the truth, even at the risk of rejection,
urging them to aspire for leadership positions.
Speaking also, the National Chairman of the council
of Ulamau of JIBWIS, Sheik Sani Yahaya Jingir, charged Muslim faithful on the
need to be law-abiding, stressing the importance of seeking both Islamic and Western
education.
The Muslim cleric also decried the level of moral
decadence in the country’s educational system, especially with recent reports
of sexual harassment of female students in some universities.
Jingir, therefore, called on university lecturers to
put the fear of God in their work, and henceforth desist from molesting their
students.
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