National Telescope national telescope newspaper
Oluwatobi Ibukunmi
Oodua People congress, New Era, has advised the Federal Government to relocate Kwara state capital to a neutral ground away from Ilorin.
The state coordinator of OPC, New Era in Kwara, Comrade Bayo Fabiyi made this suggestion as a way settling the impasse between Isese people and Muslim clerics in Ilorin.
Fabiyi said that while he would advise all Isese practitioners never to fight or kick against the Emir of Ilorin, Alh. Sulu Gambari, as a Royal father over all, he also advised that Muslim clerics follow the “deenukum waliya deen”
Principle of Islam and allow Isese people to practice their religion without troubling or causing intrusion into their mode of worship.
The OPC coordinator said that the entire Kwara South, North and some parts of the East of Kwara all practice Isese, therefore if Ilorin is the only place where Isese becomes a challenge, the status of Ilorin as a state capital should be changed while the ancient town can be allowed to remain purely Islamic place because of all towns in Kwara, only Ilorin is where Islamic extremism thrives adding that there are Muslims in other places co habiting with their isese and other religious brothers without crises or disturbances.
He criticized the Muslim fundamentalists who ignored several other serious issues such as cultism and other issues of insecurity but chose to selectively face Isese a group that are just practicing their religion without hindering the peace of others.
Fabiyi also reiterated that insecurity in Kwara is occasioned by the admittance of Fulanis who were displaced from Igangan in Oyo state back into Ilorin.
He lamented that against his earlier warnings when Abubakar Iskail was not heeded that the group when chased from Igangan would settle down in Ilorin, but nobody yielded his advise.
Comrade Fabiyi lamented that he raised this alarm long ago about the impending danger of allowing the man to but no one in the security architecture of Kwara state but no one listened to him.
He advised that the only way to end insecurity in Kwara is by nipping it in the bud to chase intruding Herdsmen and kidnap pin can be chased out of KWARA.
