Abdulsalami Abubakar urges islamic scholars to proffer solutions to Nigeria’s problems

Former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, has called on Islamic scholars to provide workable solutions to the several problems confronting Nigeria.
He gave the call while declaring open the 2nd Annual International Conference with the theme, “Islam, Social Justice and Sustainable Development in Nigeria” organised by the faculty of Islamic Studies, Nasarawa State University in Keffi area of Nasarawa state.

Represented by the onetime Minister of Finance, Alhaji Ismail Usman, Abubakar also called for collective efforts and public engagement of religion and theology in order to address the nation’s social injustice.
According to Abubakar, “Religion should be one of the vehicles to be used in entrenching unity in diversity as it launches man in to wide horizons of truth and goodness acquainting him with God and the rest of the universe.

“We should struggle to keep Nigeria one and to a large extent, promote its unity and oneness regardless of our ethno-cultural and religious diversity.

“Therefore whatever is morally justified to keep Nigeria together as one indivisible and indissoluble nation such as the theme of this significant conference is cherished and embraced.
“This conference should, therefore, ensure that that issues on social justice and sustainable development as enunciated in the glorious Qur’an and Sunnah that will move Nigeria forward are brought to lime light.
“Therefore, I urge this conference to look in to these observations to find out the real cause of social injustice in Nigeria with a bid to finding workable solutions to such problems from the Islamic paradigm.”