As activities towards the 2023 general election get ready with political gladiators calling for zoning of the presidency to certain parts of the country, the National Chairman, Council of Ulama of Jama’atu Izalatul Bidia wa Iqamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS), Sheikh Muhammadu Sani Yahaya Jingir, has stated zoning as undemocratic.

Sheikh Jingir made the declaration on Sunday in his message at the end of the global preaching session of JIBWIS in Bauchi, including that zoning violates democratic tenets.

According to the JIBWIS’ Ulama chairman, instead of zoning the presidency to any part of the country in 2023, the presidential contest needs to be exposed to every region of the nation with a view to permitting the very best candidate to emerge.

He submitted that as much as political celebrations had the choice to field candidates of their choices, the electorates likewise deserved to choose who to lead them.

“The essential rights of all political parties to field candidates of their options and the right of voters to easily work out choices over who leads them can not be jeopardized.

“Our people need to be permitted to exercise their rights according to the laws of the country and the electoral laws, anything otherwise is undemocratic,” the scholar stated.

He, nevertheless, gotten in touch with Muslims of voting age to not only register but likewise ensure that get their citizen’s cards to allow them to exercise their franchise of ballot in the 2023 basic election to choose the best leaders at all levels.

Speaking on the existing security challenges the country is coping currently, Jingir stated some enemies of Nigeria who had actually prepared to destabilise the nation lagged these.

According to him, “that is the reason they produced banditry and introduced substance abuse to encourage ethical decadence among our youths which is a hazard to peace and stability of a nation.”

Sheikh Jingir admonished leaders at all levels to prevent policies efficient in pushing Nigerians into deeper hardship and desperation.

He further encouraged the federal government at all levels to think about a type of the structured welfare system to alleviate poverty amongst the people as things are challenging for Nigerians now.

The JIBWIS employer worried the requirement for the Muslim ummah in the country to join and regularly praise Allah as preserved in the Qur’an and the tradition of Prophet Mohammed.

He then applauded the Bauchi State guv, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, for his efforts in structure mosques and other places of praise, prompting him to continue to be fair to all citizens.

Speaking at the event, Governor Mohammed advised religious leaders to always preach peace and peaceful coexistence among individuals, irrespective of their ethnic and spiritual associations.

He added that clerics need to constantly stress the moral childhood of the youth in society.

The governor ensured that his administration would continue to support religious groups in the state and prompted them to wish peace in the state and for the success of his administration.

DAILY POST reports that the JIBWIS’s worldwide preaching session had in participation Islamic scholars from within and outside the nation, particularly from Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, to name a few.