August 11, 2024
The chairman of Muslim council, Adamawa State chapter, Alhaji Gambo Jika has today carpeted the organizers of Gongola Elders Forum (GEF) for their resort to the use of divisions to gain political traction saying that their mission is dead on arrival adding that Adamawa Muslims are too strong to be undermined.
It may be recalled that the Gongola Elders’ Forum has organized a high powered stakeholders meeting in Yola about two months ago in order to chart a new course for ethnic nationalities and to free them from years of “political and economic marginalization.”
Speaking during this years public presentation of Hijrah Calendar 1446 (AH) and Annual General Meeting which is the fifth in the series in Yola, Jika noted that the council decided to maintain a calculated and mature stance during the provocation adding that such silence should not be misconstrued as weakness.
He noted that Muslims have significant influence and political wherewithal to call the bluff of anyone who thinks he can whip up sectional, religion or ethnic sentiments for the expediency of political capital calling on the ethnic nationalities to rather than throwing tantrums take the course of mediation for peace and harmony to prevail.
“They are trying to whip up divisions and we will not agree in Adamawa. I want to use this opportunity to tell the organizers of the forum that their mission is dead on arrival. What happened in 1979 will never repeat itself again in Adamawa State. We will never allow the politics of sentiments, ethnicity, divisions and religious to gain traction again.
“It is trite that the forum did not think that amongst the array of Muslims in Adamawa no one deserves to be invited. If they are really talking about ethnic nationalities how many Muslims who are ethnic nationalities were invited? Even Lamido was shunned but the organizers deemed it fit to invite Aku Uka to lead the gathering.
“I want to use this opportunity to strongly and unambiguously tell them that their mission is dead on arrival. Let me tell them as we have done before, the Muslims will again come up strongly and defeat any such tendency because we have what it take to make our voices and our aspirations count.
“I was in Saudi Arabia when the act of provocation took place but I deliberately refused to respond and I enjoined Muslims not to respond but we will tell them no conspiracy crafted against us will prevail.
“What happened in the past will be consigned eternally to the dusbin of history but let no one deciecve himself that such antics will work in Adamawa because they have failed even in Nasarawa State where the conspirators thought it will be easier for them to triumph,” he said.
“We know the strategies we deploy to win election in Adamawa and we shall emerge victorious over our aggressors,” he said.
He thanked Adamawa people for heeding to the call of elders not to partake in destructive protests just as he thanked Fintiri for ensuring the prevalence of peace in the state adding that posterity will be kind to him for his doggedness in protecting lives and properties.
Source: https://tgnews.com.ng/adamawa-muslim-council-leader-attacks-gpf-says-their-resort-to-use-religion-for-political-gain-is-dead-on-arrival/