Tinubu’s inauguration sacrosanct – Sultan
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has urged Nigerians to pray for the incoming administration to succeed in steering the affairs of the country.
He spoke in Abuja yesterday during a roundtable engagement with traditional and religious rulers, organized by the World Bank on how to increase human capital development in Nigeria especially, on the girl-child education.
According to him, a new administration will take over on May 29 whether anyone likes it or not.
He stated: “There must be change because in the next few days or weeks, there’ll be a new government. What can we contribute for that government to stabilize? Whether anybody likes it, it must take place, a new government is coming on 29 May.
“So, what can we do besides prayers because we believe in Almighty, we believe in the God that gives and takes.
“After that, so what? What do we do to help the government stabilize and move the country forward?
The sultan urged religious and traditional leaders to work together for the betterment of the country.
“Let us continue to work as one big family with different mothers and fathers or whatever it is, but our main father and mother is Nigeria. As religious leaders, there must be equity and justice in whatever is being done and that is what I think we need to talk about the most.”
Some of our big men have so much that I don’t know what they will do with the money if they live 100 or 1,000 years and will not spend it, what will they do with it? How can they come out and help such organizations or groups and individuals who are spending a lot to help our communities.”
“Of course, our healthcare system, you know what it is, if a big man has a headache, he goes to London to take Panadol and comes back, it is a fact. So many of our governors built so many clinics, nothing is there but littered with rats but in the books, you have built 1,000 clinics in your state, it is a fact. These are things we are seeing.”
He noted that he was just giving a general view, not criticizing anyone.
“So let no governor come and pick me and say sultan has criticized me. I’m not criticizing anybody. I’m making a critique which is different from criticizing, so people should know that. You can critique an issue so that people will be better.”
Sultan said religious and traditional leaders are the most respected, saying “that’s why you see political candidates coming to our palaces to seek our prayers. I’m sure many of our colleagues here must have seen so many politicians wanting to be Senate president or speaker of the House going to your palaces or comfort zones to say, pray for me that I’m the best candidate. We see this every day.”