El-Rufai comments: Democracy game of numbers, Sharia Council tackles CAN

El-Rufai comments: Democracy game of numbers, Sharia Council tackles CAN

The Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria has said the former governor of Kaduna, Nasiru El-rufai, only aired his views on the political happenings in the state and by extension the country.

Recall that the CAN state chairman, Rev Joseph Hayab, had in a recent statement while reacting to El-rufai’s comment on why he chose Muslims as Deputy Gov, SSG, Chief of Staff, Speaker, lampooned the former governor for promoting Islam in a plural state like Kaduna concluding that El-rufai still wants to be relevant after leaving power.

However, in a swift reaction, the sharia council through its state Secretary, AbdurRahman Hassan, in a statement on Sunday noted, “For the past one week, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Kaduna State chapter has been wagging tongues accusing the former governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasiru Ahmad El-Rufai, of making some statements as far as CAN is concerned, simply because he aired his view on the political realities of Muslim-Muslim ticket.

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However, the statement declared that the stand of the council on this issue is that CAN would have shut up, and followed the line of honour.

The statement said during the campaigns of the just concluded elections in this country, where was CAN when majority of pastors were making unguarded utterances, which if not for the help of Allah (SWT), Nigeria would have been history.

It said to the extent that, on a video that went viral on social media, one Apostle Kassy Chukwu insinuated that Tinubu’s wife should have poisoned him, and CAN did nothing.