{"id":28778,"date":"2023-06-29T02:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T02:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=28778"},"modified":"2023-06-29T02:55:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T02:55:06","slug":"south-south-group-slams-muslim-ummah-over-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=28778","title":{"rendered":"South-South Group Slams Muslim Ummah Over Neglect."},"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\">COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF A ONE DAY CRUCIAL MEETING OF SOUTH-SOUTH MUSLIM STAKEHOLDERS HELD AT ASABA, \u00a0DELTA STATE ON THE 24TH JUNE 2023.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The meeting was attended by representatives from the six states of the South -south \u00a0geo-political zone of Akwa ibom , Bayelsa, Cross Rivers, Delta, Edo, and Rivers states \u00a0Observers from other staes were also in attendance.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The meeting being first of it&#8217;s kind, \u00a0was the way forward \u00a0for Islam in the south -south region.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Muslims decreed the neglect of the Muslim Ummah by the apex body, \u00a0the Nigerian Supreme Court for Islamic Affairs headed by His Eminence, Alhaji Sa&#8217;ad Abubakar, \u00a0lll, the Sultan of Sokoto.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The meeting viewed with dismay the preferential treatment being accorded to other Muslim brothers in the Northern and Western part of the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Muslim stakeholders noted that they are being treated as second class Muslims in the Nigerian Muslim community.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">That the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs headed by His Eminence Sa-ad Abubakar the Sultan of Sokoto, \u00a0the leader of the Muslim community in Nigeria \u00a0turns a blind eyes to the plight of Muslims and Islam in the south -south.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In that regard, we the Muslims in the south -south hereinafter refers to as the south -south Muslim stakeholders calls on His Eminence to give prompt attention to the plight of Muslims in the South Southe and Nigeria in general in other that the Muslims in the area be fully integrated into the body of Muslim Ummah in the country. That we deserve to be accorded our right and privileges as fundarmentaly \u00a0guaranteed to practice our religious faith.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The South South Muslim Stakeholder pledge her unalloyed loyalty to the Council.and the leadership of the Sultan<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Signed \u00a0Alhaji Barr Mumakai Unagha<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Convener, South South Muslim Stakeholder.<\/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>COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF A ONE DAY CRUCIAL MEETING OF SOUTH-SOUTH MUSLIM STAKEHOLDERS HELD AT ASABA, \u00a0DELTA STATE ON THE 24TH JUNE 2023. The meeting was attended by representatives from the six states of the South -south \u00a0geo-political zone of Akwa ibom , Bayelsa, Cross Rivers, Delta, Edo, and Rivers states \u00a0Observers from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3318,"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":[4],"tags":[6095,2470],"class_list":["post-28778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-mumakai-unagha","tag-sultan-of-sokoto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Sultan-of-Sokoto-Alhaji-Muhammad-Abubakar-III-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-7ua","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28778","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=28778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28779,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28778\/revisions\/28779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}