ISLAMIC GROUP WRITES JONATHAN Ahead #OsunGuberPoll , Islamic Group Writes Jonathan…You need to read their message to the Presidency Barely a month to the conduct of the governorship poll in the State of Osun, an Islamic group of international repute, the Jama’atu Ta’awunil Muslimeen Society of Nigeria, has raised alarm over a plan of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State through the assistance of Federal security agencies, to effect unlawful arrest and detention of some leaders and leading supporters of Governor Rauf Aregbesola ahead of the poll slated for August 9, 2014 by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC). The Islamic group also condemned the alleged political threat to the life of its National President, Sheikh Daood Imran Molasan, ahead of the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the state, saying that the political assassination, violence and thuggery in the nation’s electioneering process ahead of 2015 general elections is barbaric, evil, uncivilized and anti-democratic. This was contained in a press statement issued by Sheikh Molasan titled: “Letter to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on Osun Guber poll and State of the Nation” and also copied both leadership of the Chambers of the National Assembly, the United Nations, American and United Kingdom Embassies, Inspector-General of Police, Director-General of the Department of State Security Service (DSSS) and a host of others, while a copy was made available to newsmen in Osogbo, on Thursday. The group maintained that the alleged planned intimidation of the members and supporters of Governor Aregbesola and his party leaders before and during the governorship poll as was experienced in the just-concluded Ekiti guber poll by the agents of the Federal government was an aberration of the highest order in a democratic setting. The Islamic organization however, called on the authorities in the country and international community to assist Nigeria in eliminating political thuggery facing our electoral process through political re-orientation, political activism, legal/legislative mechanism and sincere and people-oriented empowerment programmes. On the issue of violence in the country, Molasaan said: “It is our belief that Boko Haram has the strength it has because some powers that be (be it local or foreign, private or institutionalized) are giving them support, and that in the same vein, if political thuggery goes unchecked, it may grow wing to the extent that if Boko Haram dies, political thuggery may succeed it. “We heard rumours that some selected personalities, especially, Sheikh Daood Imran Molasan, the National President of Jama’at Ta’awunil Muslimeen are to be arrested/assassinated on or before the gubernatorial election in the State of Osun come August 9, 2014. It is our belief that unlawful arrest or political assassination is not only un-constitutional but also undemocratic, not only in Nigeria, but also in all the civilized societies. It is also our belief that same pushes people to the wall and forces them to react violently (and the cases of Tunis, Egypt, Syria and Libya as well as the United States of America as a colony under the United Kingdom are living witnesses).We, as citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who believe in its UNITY AND PROGRESS, call on the above mentioned authorities to assist our country in eliminating the traces and elements of unlawful political arrest or assassination”. According to the group: “As if the arbitrary, unlawful and silent assassination of Chief Bola Ige (the then Attorney-General of the Federation) is not enough, the agent of intimidation added salt to the sore, as witnessed in Ekiti State recently (where and when private citizens, leaders of communities, elite in the society and political stalwarts were unlawfully arrested and detained, and nothing was done to fish out and punish the perpetrators). And this makes average Nigerian citizens to ask that who is now safe in Nigeria?”. “It is our observation that though the demographic statistics of Syria is just 23-30 million, the effect of Syrian war on Turkey cannot be overlooked, the population of Libya is less than 7 million, the effect of Libyan war on the neighbouring countries and International market is monumental, and the greatness of Egypt in Africa does not surpass that of Nigerian, (yet) the effect of Egypt crisis on the Arab world is a history to be told and re-told in future. If Nigeria, with her over 170 million population, should burst (Allah forbid!), the effect it will have on the neighbouring countries, International market and economy, International community and the global stability will be too disastrous for all.” The group later enjoined the President Jonathan-led Federal Government to stand up in finding a lasting solution to the socio-political and economic problems facing the peaceful Short URL: osundefender.org/?p=176878
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:38:55 +0000