{"id":24391,"date":"2020-05-09T20:56:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=24391"},"modified":"2020-05-09T20:56:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T20:56:32","slug":"delta-muslims-reject-new-pilgrims-welfare-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=24391","title":{"rendered":"DELTA MUSLIMS REJECT NEW PILGRIMS WELFARE BOARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Our attention has been drawn to the reconstituted Delta State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board by His Excellency, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We, Muslims in the state wish to reject the composition of the board as it is one sided, does not reflect the true character of the state. The Delta Central Senatorial district is deliberately omitted or schemed out. The board is mainly made up of non indigenes, from Delta North Senatorial District. The composited is as follows:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">1. Alhaji Auwalu Tukur (Arewa) Chairman \u2013 Delta North<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">2. Dr. Ismail Ekudaye (Yoruba) Secretary \u2013 Delta North<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">3. Dr. Afolabi (Yoruba) Member \u2013 Delta North<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">4. Dr. Elunor Mohamed (Anioma) Member \u2013 Delta North<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">5. Alhaji Jauroh Suleman (Arewa) \u2013 Member<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">6. Haji Maryam Muhammad \u2013 Member \u2013 Delta South<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We wish to state categorically rejects the composition as it will amount to re-colonization. How can the state government appoint virtually non indigenes into an affair of the state? The action will bleed germs that will germinate crisis in the nearest future as the government is systematically handily Delta State to Fulani herdsmen.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Apart from the one sided appointment, a primary school leaver was appointed to chairman the Board in a state where we have qualified lawyers, engineers and other sound professionals Islamic scholars.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We call on the state governor to urgently reverse the composition without further delay. We have no other state than Delta. If the situation is not corrected we will make the state ungovernable. We are already contending the appointment of Sadiq Musa an Edo indigene to represent Delta State in the National Hajj Commission which we are challenging in the Federal High Court, Warri, we have not gotten out of it yet, again the Delta State government has added more fire to the already tensed situation in the state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It is enough of the oppression, the state government cannot deny us of our right in our own state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Signed:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">ISSAH OGAGU<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">For an on behalf of Muslims of Delta State<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our attention has been drawn to the reconstituted Delta State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board by His Excellency, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa. We, Muslims in the state wish to reject the composition of the board as it is one sided, does not reflect the true character of the state. The Delta Central Senatorial district is deliberately omitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[5794,5793],"class_list":["post-24391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-alhaji-auwalu-tukur","tag-issah-ogagu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Okowa-300x215.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-6lp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24392,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24391\/revisions\/24392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}