Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose
The League of Imams and Alfas in Ekiti
has ordered Muslims in the state not to collect rams and other food
items for Sallah celebration, if presented to them in any form by the
state government.
The League reached the decision at a
meeting held on Tuesday at Ansar-u-Deen Society Central Mosque Odo-Otu,
Ado Ekiti, where it reviewed the “deliberate marginalisation of Muslim
members in Ekiti State Government’s political appointment.”
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic
Affairs and National Council of Muslim Youth Organisation, Ekiti State,
had respectively issued statements condemning Governor Ayodele Fayose
for neglecting Muslims in appointments.
The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti
State, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, had
also described “Fayose’s treatment of Muslims in terms of appointment
in the state” as “the worst since the state was created.”
The party claimed Ekiti Muslims were not given up to one per cent of the appointments made by Fayose’s administration.
In a communiqué issued at the end of the
meeting, the League said, “Based on the above, the League, Ekiti State
Council, hereby resolved that no Muslim in the state should collect rams
and other food items, if presented to them in any form by the
government.”
The communiqué was signed by the state’s
Assistant Secretary, League of Imams and Alfas, Alhaji Quadri
Oguntuase; a Representative of Ansar-u-Deen Missioner, Fatai Jimoh and
Chief Imam, Ilogbo, Imam Abdul Rasak.
It added, “Any Muslim that collects such
rams or food items under any guise has taken Haram (Unlawful) and the
punishment of the Almighty Allah awaits the person. (Quran 71 verse
28).”
“This order stands until the government accedes to our demands as earlier published.”
Fayose had distributed chickens and rice
to indigenes during the last Christmas celebration in the state as part
of his stomach infrastructure policy.
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