We’re worried – Miyetti Allah issues caution: Sultan of Sokoto

Nigerian politicians have been advised by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, or MACBAN, to stop playing around with sultanate institutions.

The request was made in a statement on Saturday in Abuja by Alhaji Baba Othman-Ngelzarma, the National President of MACBAN.

Othman-Ngelzarma emphasized how important it is to defend and maintain the Sultanate’s institution throughout the nation.

He stated that lawmakers who were meant to be focusing their energies on advancing good administration should not be playing around with the institution of the Sultanate, which has existed for more than 200 years.

The venerable Sultan, who represents Islamic authority in Nigeria, was allegedly under fear of being dehumanized, a move that Othman-Ngelzarma found objectionable.

“We feel that safeguarding and maintaining the Sultanate’s institution is a fundamental duty of every right-minded individual in the nation,” he declared.

”We call upon the Sokoto State Government, especially the legislature, to tread softly and do all that is necessary to preserve and protect the institution that represents an all important ideology that created it.

”Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, is worried by the media reports alleging that the Sokoto Government intends to whittle down the powers of his Eminence the Sultan, Alhaji Saad Abubakar III.”

He stated that MACBAN remained steadfast in supporting the Sultan, stating that they thought he deserved more because he had demonstrated the ability to maintain fairness and justice in all of his interactions.

“This is evident in his efforts in propagating religious and ethnic tolerance in Nigeria among diverse groups.

“His background as a military man, his resoluteness to speak the truth and his standing for the poor and underprivileged in spite of being an aristocrat makes him a model for leaders to emulate,” he concluded.