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April 15, 2010 15:48 (4 hours ago), 175 views

Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano on Wednesday in Cardiff, United Kingdom, described the Libyan leader, Mohammar Ghaddafi, as an ignorant person.

Fielding questions at a lecture he delivered on ‘Islam and the West: Misconception or Misrepresentation,’ at the Cardiff University, Shekarau said the suggestion made by the Libyan leader that Nigeria be divided along religious lines should be taken as the view of “an ignorant man.”

Commenting on the Jos crisis in which more than 100 persons were reportedly killed in Dogo Nahuwa, the Libyan leader said Nigeria should be divided along ethnic or religious lines for peace to reign in the country.

“Ghaddafi succeeded in a total display of his ignorance on what Nigeria is and what the country stands for, because he doesn’t know that Nigerians of all faiths had been living together for centuries and had been inter-marrying for ages.

“In my administration, I have Nigerians from all parts of the country, I have an Igbo man as adviser, I have an Igala man, I have a Bayelsa man and they all team up with us to develop Kano, regardless of the fact that they are not from Kano State.

“What Ghadaffi said about Nigeria is rubbish, and he has been trying to get out of it, because he thought he had done some damage,” he added.

The governor recalled that in the past, Kano was a volatile state but that the story was different today.

“In the past, there would be trouble in other parts of Nigeria, but reprisal attacks would be recorded in Kano, but when we came into office in 2003, we institutionalised a programme of societal re-orientation and change of attitude to end all ethnic and religious problems.

“This we did through opening the space for dialogue and understanding among all faiths,” he said.

Answering another question, Shekarau said the cause of the crises in Jos was misconstrued by the media, particularly the western media.

He said the crises in Jos were traceable to economic factors between the so-called “indigenes” and the so-called “settlers” and added that they only had religious connotations because the media painted pictures of sectarian and religious crises.

“The problem is that of economy, it is a mere co-incidence that the ‘indigenes’ and the ‘settlers’ are either Muslims or Christians,” he said.

He explained that in many cities where the so-called “settlers” were more successful economically than the “indigenes,” there were bound to be upheavals.

He said that Kano State was known as the centre of commerce, but that a sizeable portion of the commercial activities were in the hands of traders from outside the state
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Pot calling kettle black anyone?

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