2015: Losers must accept defeat says IBB

another race someday.”
Represented by Brigadier General Dantsoho Mohammed (rtd), the former head of state said that as the campaign for 2015 gathers momentum, an overheated polity will produce nothing other than chaos in the land.

He said, “I wish to advise politicians to be careful and responsible as they start their campaign train; Nigerians deserve nothing less than the dividends of democracy that will grant minimum comfort for better quality life.

“This is what is required to take the youths off the streets, restore the confidence of the disenchanted and provide succour for the poverty-stricken masses of this country. This is what is needed to check the menace perpetrated by militants and Boko Haram insurgency”.

Kaduna State governor, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero who also spoke at the event said no amount of fighting or violence can bring one power but only God, and pleaded for peaceful coexistence among the people of the state and the nation as a whole.

Speaking earlier, the Sultan of Sokoto, Dr Sa'ad Abubakar tasked people with Islamic religious knowledge to imbibe the culture of educating the common folks with the basic tenets of Islam wherever they find themselves.

Represented by the Emir of Zazzau, Dr Shehu Idris, the Sultan noted that Nigeria is a country with diverse cultures and religious backgrounds where the natives speak different languages, and called on Muslims to propagate Islam.

In his welcome address, the author of the books, Dr Aminu Ladan Shareru said lack of knowledge of Arabic is no more an excuse not to learn the basic facts and principles of Islam.

According to him, fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam but it must be done as stipulated in the Qur'an, which is why the book was written to enlighten the Muslim faithful on the right way of fasting.

The books written by Dr Shareru are entitled “Fasting According to Islamic Law” and “Matsayin Azumi A Shari'ar Musulunci, the hausa translation of the former.

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