By Barnabas Manyam (In Yola, Adamawa State)
The Adamawa State Muslim Council's recent endorsement of Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri for the Saturday March 18 gubernatorial elections has caused a major crack in the organization.
The Secretary, Adamawa State Muslim Council, Michika Local Government branch, Alhaji Abdulrahman Maina Yaji, Mutawallin Michika, has resigned his position due to what he called 'politicization of the faith organization' by its State leadership.
According to his resignation letter dated March 7, 2023 and addressed to the State Chairman, Muslim Council and made available to newsmen, alleged that the leadership of the organization has lent their support to a particular governorship candidate, thereby derailing from its constitutional obligations of being a father umpire to all shades of opinions.
He described the Muslim Council as "selfish self serving, greedy crooks who are desperate in need of money which has led them to drag the name of Islam into the mud to satisfy their bellies.
“The selfish and partisan activities of the Adamawa state leadership of Muslim Council, has seriously become a source of embarrassing joker with concern to the well-meaning Muslim Ummah of Adamawa state who are being deceived by the leadership of the Council.
He said, “An organization that is supposed to be non-political, but unfortunately they became supporters and form a campaign team for the ruling PDP and championing for the re-election of Fintiri, is rather embarrassing and dragging the name of the council to the mud.
“This they exhibited by touring all the 21 Local Governments in Adamawa state, meeting with the local branches to inform them that the council has endorsed Fintiri and that Muslim Ummah are directed through the local branches to inform and mobilize the Muslim Ummah to vote for PDP/Fintiri, just because their hands were greased.
“As the Secretary of Muslim Council Michika Branch, I have resolved to put in my resignation from the position,” Yaji rex
He described the leadership of the Adamawa Muslims Council as a "bread and butter one who are petty minded and greedy and who endorsed Fintiri because of filth Lucre to satisfy their whimsical and capricious tendencies".
Many Adamawa State elders and prominent scholars have supported the stand of the Muttawali Michika. NNL.
