The Ulama Forum in Nigeria has called on Nigerian government, and the ECOWAS to retract from treading the undemocratic path of issuing threats or employing violence in handling the current delicate situation in the Niger Republic.
The Forum in a press statement jointly signed by the Convener, Aminu Inuwa Muhammad and the Secretary, Engr Basheer Adamu Aliyu asked the Nigerian government, and the ECOWAS to take to the more enlightened and more informed diplomatic protocols in assisting Niger Republic to restore its democracy.
The Forum also called on the Nigerian National Assembly to wake up to its constitutional responsibility of critically looking into this issue and exercising the necessary check on the Executive and prevent Nigeria from going into needless war.
They called on Faith-based organizations in the country, from across the faiths to embark on preaching for peace in the region and maintaining the good neigbourliness that has long existed between Nigeria and Niger.
The Ulama Forum called on the Muslim Ummah to embark on earnest prayers for Allah’s mercy in touching the hearts of the leaders so that they listen to the voice of reason and not to succumb to the influence of subterranean hands.
The group said it was vitally important for the Nigerian government to consider its current formative stage and the security threats that were spread all over the nation which were stretching its resources and capabilities than to rush into an avoidable conflict with a neighbour at the behest of global politicking.
The Forum commended the latest diplomatic initiative of sending envoys by ECOWAS to engage the military leaders of Niger in a robust and constructive dialogue.
This, they said, was, indeed, the right way to go, and it should be explored to the maximum extent.
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