The Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, SCSN, has expressed regrets for supporting the Muslim-Muslim ticket which brought President Bola Ahmed to power.
According to the prominent Islamic organization, its belief that the All Progressives Congress, APC, same faith presidential ticket would bring progress to the country has been shattered.
More than seven months after coming to power, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kasim Shettima has failed to bring the needed change, SCSN said.
Sheikh AbdurRasheed Hadiyyatullah, the president of SCSN told journalists during a National Conference held in Abuja, the nation’s capital said it backed the same faith ticket in the belief that it would lead to the transformation of the country.
The group however said the situation in the country has since gone from bad to worse since the party came to power in May last year, stressing that the actions of the government so far indicate that it has no interest of the masses at heart.
“We are not making any progress,” Hadiyyatulah said, adding that ‘we have not enjoyed anything since seven months of this government”.
According to the Islamic leader, Hadiyyatulah, “The Nigeria of today is too bad. What we are buying at N200 before is N2000 now. We have scarcity of Naira and unemployment is escalating. Nigerians are not enjoying the new government at all.
“I don’t want to go personal but the Sharia Council helped the Muslim-Muslim ticket to be successful. We campaigned and supported this government until it came to power, but we are suffering.
“Some of the Ministers are siphoning and looting the treasury. I don’t want to mention any names, but we have all seen and read it. Nigerians have been suffering since the last seven months when this government came to power.
“We are not making any progress. The reason for the Muslim-Muslim ticket was to progress, triumph, succeed and to have a good government, but we didn’t have anything.
“See how Nigerians are suffering. No money. No progress. We have not enjoyed anything since seven months of this government.
“We are sympathetic with this government, but the way forward is for some of these Ministers to go home and rest, and we will find other people who will be honest with themselves and the country, those who are there to work, not to loot the country.”
Recall that the APC Muslim-Muslim ticket had caused a serious furore ahead the 2023 presidential election, as many Nigerians expressed reservations over APC’s choice, insisting that the party was trying to polarize the country.
Both Tinubu and Shettima are muslims.
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