Leading Muslim Clerics across the country under the aegis of the Council of Ulamas of Nigeria, yesterday lauded the cooperation between the Senate and the Executive in the fight against terrorism in the country.
Astatement signed by the Senate President’s chief press secretary, Sani Onogu, the Council made the commendation when its leadership visited the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, in Abuja.
Secretary General of the Council, Professor Mohammed Sadiq Abubakar, stated in his remarks that the cooperation contributed in no small measure in defeating terrorists and insurgents in the North East.
He urged the two arms of government (executive and legislature), to further strengthen their relationship “as it is the people at the grassroots that will suffer from any quarrel between them.”
“We are happy about the fence mending and reconciliation efforts of the President with the Senate. I was happy when I read that the Senate President in a newspaper interview said that there is no quarrel between the executive and the Senate,” he said.
He, however, traced the origin of the legislature to the time of Prophet Mohammed, when he set up a people’s Assembly comprising representatives of Muslims and non-Muslims when he migrated to Medina.
The Council of Ulama of Nigeria, he said, was established 31 years
ago to unite the Ulama from all the Islamic sects for the purpose of stability within the adherents of the Islamic religion and the nation in general, saying that, “our membership is drawn from all Islamic sects without any form of discrimination.”