The leadership of the Taraba State chapter of the Muslim Council of Nigeria (MCN) has actually contacted their counterparts from the Christian Association (CAN) to desist from acting as a mouth piece of the State federal government.

Making the call at a media rundown on Monday, in Jalingo, the State capital, they noted with discouragement the way CAN had being supporting the federal government to relegate Muslims in the State to the background.

Led by its Acting Chairman, Qadi Abdulmumuni Abubakar, the Muslims who were responding to a current remark, believed that “CAN is going too far.”

Wondering why they (CAN) should be the ones defending the federal government on the allegations leveled against it by the council, CAN, as advised by the council, “should desist from acting blindly or nostalgic on problems within and outside the State created to pit followers of both faith against each other. “

According to Abubakar “CAN need to desist from acting or acting like a political party or an arm of the Taraba State federal government,” including that “this is because journalism conference by the Muslim Council did not in any manner sign up with CAN in its marginalization weeps.”

The council, which might not fathom why CAN reached unmasking the allegations which the government has actually not denied, made available to media professionals the list of a few of the most Senior Muslim civil servants whom they alledged were rejected the opportunity of rising to the positions of irreversible secretaries in the State.

On the CAN’s claim that the State was predominantly Christians, the council also argued that the “undisputable truth is that Muslims are not minority in Taraba State. “

Buttressing their point with the 2016 National Population Commission and the report of the National Bureau for Statistics which they stated predicted Taraba State’s population at 3, 066,800, they affirmed that “it is only in the figment of CAN’s creativity that Taraba State is willfully seen as a Christian State.”

The management of CAN, it would be remembered, just recently kicked against the council and the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) over their claims of being marginalized in the State, specifically in the locations of employments and consultations.