MUSLIM PROFESSIONALS PROMISE BUHARI, OSINBAJO THEIR VOTES IN THE UPCOMING 2019 ELECTIONS
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By Ife Adewole
Muslims Professionals in the South West of Nigeria promise to give their votes to President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice President Osinbajo, who are the presidential candidates of All Progressive Congress APC.
The statement was made while presenting two special Al-Quran and other Islamic materials to the Vice President, during an interactive session organised by Muslim Professionals on Saturday night, at the Lekki Central Mosque, Lagos.
The meeting was solely an interactive session in which various questions that were in the mind of the professionals were given an opportunity to be responded to by the Vice President.
The questions were gathered from audience present at the meeting and also from online participants, some of the questions that the Vice President did accurate justice to includes questions from Dr Saheed Ahmed from department of surgery Lagos State University teaching Hospital, who asked what the government is doing and what they intend doing differently to reduce the rate of mortality rate which is the highest in the world.
He also asked why the Vice President 72hours ultimatum given on July 21, 2018 during his visit to Lagos to evacuate the tankers and trailers on the Lagos – Apapa Expressway that was causing gridlock and has denied several Nigerian accesses to medical facility was not adhered to.
Executive Director, Hijab Right Advocacy Initiative Mutiatu OluBalogun, speaks on behalf of the Muslim Women of Nigeria on the institutional discrimination of Muslim Women, says despite court judgment in favour of the use of hijab and the provision of the constitution which gave us freedom of thought, conscience, religion and freedom not to be discriminated against, yet everywhere the Muslim Woman is; there has always been discrimination especially on the issues of voters registration, and during biometrics capture for driver’s license and international passport.
Mutiatu added that, despite the secular passed from Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria in 2002 stating categorically that Muslim Women can wear hijabs on their uniforms yet School of Nursing Igando and several other institutions in the East and other part of the country except in the North do not grant them the priviledge to use the hijab.
The Professor of Law gave accurate and justifiable answers to the questions and enlightens the audience on the issues raised.
On the issue of insecurity, Osinbajo said state policing is the best way out of insecurity in Nigeria as a policeman transferred from Lagos to Zamfara will find it challenging to understand the language and the terrain in which he finds himself and will not even know when they are planning his death in his present.
He further added that private company that can provide power for captive areas will be given license to distribute power to customers, this he referred to as decentralization.
In regards to the use of hijab, the V.P said Federal government will not interfere at all in the matter since the case is before the court of Appeal and an alternative way is through legislation and says ignorant is the major cause of discrimination, he suggested that a report should be made to the Ministry of Internal Affair to address it.
Dignitaries at the meeting includes: Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Hon. Minister of Communication Barrister Adebayo Shittu, Nigeria High commission to Canada Amb. Adeasetan, Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Mr Babatunde Fowler, Association of Muslim Professionals, Association of Muslim Women in Business and Profession, Muslim Media Practitioners Association, Muslim Bankers Association of Nigeria, Ibadan Muslim Professionals, Islamic Medicals Association, Muslim Lawyers Association, University of Lagos Muslim Alumni among others.
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