Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi on Thursday, visited Adamawa State to meet with members of the
Tijjaniyya Islamic sect over the increasing insecurity in the country.
The Emir said the security
situation imposes on him the task of touring the country to meet his members
where they are.
Sanusi Lamido who is the leader
of the sect in Nigeria, explained in Yola, that a meeting would have been
convened for all members across the country to meet, but that summoning members
to travel from around the country to the venue of such meeting is risky owing
to heightening security challenge.
The Tijjaniya sect Khalifa in
Nigeria whose first point of call upon arriving Yola on Thursday was the Lamido
Adamawa’s Palace in Yola, told the Lamido, Muhammad Musdafa, that he was in the
town for the continuation of his countrywide tour to save members the risk of
travelling to a central meeting place.
“I am here for Tijaniyya Movement. I came to
interact with my people as their leader,” he said, adding that he had earlier
been to Ibadan (South West) and Lokoja (North Central) and that he would use
the opportunity of his visit to Yola to condole with the family of the late
elder statesman, Ahmed Joda.
The former Central Bank governor
and then Emir of Kano was appointed by the Tijjaniyya Movement as its new
Nigerian leader in March this year.
His appointment, however, raised
some opposition in some quarters of the movement which his emergence existed in
two factions, but his leadership was rectified in May and was handed the
mandate to sustain unity in the sect’s community around the country.
Asserting his leadership of the
sect while addressing the Lamido Adamawa, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi stressed that he
is the undisputed leader, the person that members of the Tijjaniyya Movement
decided should be their leader.
He reiterated the same issues
when newsmen got him for a brief chat as he emerged from the Lamido’s Palace,
but would not respond to a request for general comment on the insecurity
currently threatening public life in much of the country.
“I am not here for that,” said
the usually vocal top technocrat and traditional leader.
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