Let us sit and talk freely and articulate positions that will bring us out of the quagmire we put ourselves in.
It is important that the religious and traditional rulers from our various states sit together so that each and every one of us will talk freely.
Whatever that is happening in the north is our own doing, because we did not do what we were supposed to do.
And since we know that, we have to solve our problems ourselves. So, I think, it is not a bad idea that the committee was set up.
We wrote a memo of about nine pages or thereabouts covering various issues affecting the country and the north in particular to the then acting president and now president Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. It was at the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) where we suggested solutions to the problems.
Northern Council of Traditional Rulers met and also articulated solutions to problems of the north to the northern governors, but we don’t know what happened to the recommendations at the various authorities.
If our recommendations had been implemented, we would have been singing a different tune in handling the challenges.
If anybody thinks he can Islamize or Christianize the country, he must be dreaming, but politicians must have the fear of God in whatever they do.
If they want to solve the problem of this country they will, because they have the resources to do so.
There is little religious leaders can do without the support of the constitutional right to do certain things, but we must always watch our utterances and in making comments you cannot substantiate.
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