LG crisis: Muslim group slams Osun league of imams, Alfas over partisanship

By Shina Abubakar

OSOGBO—A Muslim group, Concerned Muslim Stakeholders and League of Alfas, successful Osun State, has berated the League of Imams and Alfas successful the authorities implicit alleged partisan relation successful the on-going section authorities councils’ crisis.

The League, nether the enactment of the Chief of Imam successful Osogbo, Sheikh Musa Animasahun had urged the Federal Government to merchandise the withheld assembly funds to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP elected Chairmen, describing them arsenic the legally recognised officials.

However, addressing journalists astatine the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ property centre successful Osogbo, yesterday, the group’s President, Khozeem AbdurRaham, berated the League of Imams for taking broadside successful an contented that concerns generality of Muslims crossed governmental divide.

He besides described arsenic unfortunate the determination of the clerics to wantonness their spiritual responsibilities to enactment arsenic governmental mouthpieces for the ruling PDP.

According to him, “It is highly astonishing that the League of Imams and Alfas who presented themselves to the nationalist arsenic speaking for the Muslim Ummah could jettison the Islamic brotherhood by turning themselves into a spiritual mouthpiece of the Governor Ademola Adeleke led-PDP astatine the detriment of interests of different Muslims successful assorted governmental parties.

“How could 1 reasonably comprehend the telephone of the League of Imams and Alfas directing President Bola Tinubu GCFR to merchandise the LG allocations to the PDP-led Governor Ademola medication successful Osun State against each the laws of the onshore arsenic pronounced by the Supreme Court of Nigeria successful July, 2024.

“Obviously, the League of Imams and Alfas indispensable not assertion to beryllium oblivious of illegality progressive successful specified a calling due to the fact that the Supreme Court successful AGF v. AG Abia has granted fiscal autonomy to the Local Governments successful Nigeria successful July 2024. The Alfas should not beryllium seen forming portion of the efforts of the Governor Ademola Adeleke’ desperation to inactive illegally cod the allocations.”

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