Unveil your blueprints on insecurity, ASUU strike, hijrah body tasks politicians

The chairman, Hijrah Organisation of Nigeria, Prof Badmas Yusuf, on Friday challenged politicians seeking elective office in the 2023 general elections to make their campaigns issue-based and proffer solutions to myriads of problems confronting the nation.

He said those seeking elective offices at all levels must tell Nigerians the strategies they would employ to end insecurity, incessant strikes by lecturers in the nation’s higher institutions and corruption.

Prof threw the challenges at the Muslim politicians and candidates during the celebration of 1444 Hijrah in Ilorin, Kwara state.

Governor AbdulRahaman AbdulRazaq and the Emir of Ilorin, Alh Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, were present at the event.

Badmus, an Islamic teacher at the University of Ilorin and Chief Imam, Hilal Central Mosque, Ilorin, counseled the Muslim politicians, especially the candidates that “the expectation of the electorates from you is nobler than fake promises, character assassination and the use of money to buy votes.”

“It is our expectation that you should tell us your strategies to find lasting solutions to insecurity, immorality and alleviation of poverty which is ravaging the greatest number of our people.”

He appealed to religious organisations to desist from the persecution of female Muslim students “who are desirous of wearing hijab in accordance with the dictates of their faith.”

He equally enjoined Muslim parents to take critical look at the mannerism of their children and discourage them from dressing indecently and in an un-Islamic way.

Also speaking, the Acting Grand Kadi of Kwara state Sharia Court of Appeal, Justice AbdulLateef Kamaldeen, urged the elective office seekers and the electorates to comport themselves in prosecuting the coming general elections.

“We should shun acts capable of fanning of disunity or that could retard our progress. We should not make ourselves available as ready tools to disrupt peace, tranquility and stability, especially our exuberant youths.”