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Niger: Don’t Plunge Sahel Region into Deeper Crisis, Kano Cleric Warns Tinubu
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Niger: Don’t Plunge Sahel Region Into Deeper Crisis,
-Kano Cleric Warns Tinubu
By Dalhatu Liman
Prominent Islamic cleric, Dr. Muhammad Sani Umar Rijiyar Lemo, has joined Nigerians to ask President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to go ahead with military action against Niger junta.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) under Tinubu’s leadership had given the junta seven days to reinstate President Mohammed Bazoum or risk sanctions, including military action.
But while preaching to Muslim faithful in Kano, on Friday, the Kano-based cleric said the bond between Nigeria and Niger Republic had gone beyond neighborhood, emphasizing that the affinity is that of brotherhood.
He said Nigeria ought to ponder on fraternal relations it has had with both the state and people of Niger.
He said any military incursion would further add salt to the injury to myriad socio-economic challenges in the Sahel region, advising ECOWAS to embrace peace.
