Abubakar Urges Scholars To Proffer Solutions To Nigeria Problems
By Ogbolu George
Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd), former military ruler, has urged Islamic scholars to provide workable solutions to the several problems confronting Nigeria.
He made this known while speaking at the 2nd Annual International Conference at the University of Keffi, Nasarawa State.
The former Head of State, who was represented by ex-Minister of Finance, Ismail Usman, also called for collective efforts and public engagement of religion and theology in order to address the nation’s social injustice.
”Religion should be one of the vehicles to be used in entrenching unity in diversity as it launches man in to wide horizons of truth and goodness acquainting him with God and the rest of the universe.
”We should struggle to keep Nigeria one and to a large extent, promote its unity and oneness regardless of our ethno-cultural and religious diversity.
”Therefore whatever is morally justified to keep Nigeria together as one indivisible and indissoluble nation such as the theme of this significant conference is cherished and embraced.
”This conference should, therefore, ensure that that issues on social justice and sustainable development as enunciated in the glorious Qur’an and Sunnah that will move Nigeria forward are brought to lime light.
”Therefore, I urge this conference to look in to these observations to find out the real cause of social injustice in Nigeria with a bid to finding workable solutions to such problems from the Islamic paradigm,” he said.
