In an effort to demonstrate outstanding leadership, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been urged to place a high priority on the security of people and their property.
Owner of Darul Na’im Sheikh Imran Abdul Mojeed Eleha made the appeal at an annual special lecture held in Ibadan, Oyo State, by the organization of Tadhamunil Muslimeen (OTM).
The expert urged the next administration to exhibit exceptional leadership, particularly in this area, while recognizing the necessity to provide enough security to counteract the instability in society.
“I want to inform the president of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, that one of the things we urgently need him to do is to ensure security,” he stated. The frequency of kidnapping, extortion, and murder is very high.
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No one can overcome this except a leader.” At the lecture titled: “Exemplary Leadership”, Sheikh Eleha emphasised the importance of having a good leader, saying, “A leaderless society is a bad one because for every group, God has created a leader.”
On followership, the cleric said that it behooved on the citizenry to ensure justice and practice equity in all their dealings to enjoy good leadership.
He said, “The revered scholar, Ibn Taymiyyah, had said that God will help a just government even if the leader is an unbeliever, while an unjust government will be deprived of dignity even if the leader is a Muslim. That is the result. People say we pray, we offer zakat and we fast, yet we are hungry. This will be so because worship has nothing to do with societal justice. There are people who neither fast nor offer zakat but because there is societal justice, they enjoy.
“Here, market women have different adulterated measuring cups, and even when you buy one litre of fuel, you are almost certain that it is not up to the value you paid for. How do you expect success from a leader when people cheat on one another in a country?
“Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said that any nation where measurements are manipulated experiences hunger, inflation and gets a bad leader. Now you complain of bad leaders but you also tamper with measuring cups of garri, manipulate fuel dispensers; don’t you know that you have requested for an unsuccessful leader by so doing?”
Dr Amoo Alaga, while speaking, applauded good leaders who were committed to societal growth and development, saying a good leader would be good irrespective of his religious beliefs.
He added that if Prof Dora Akunyili was alive and contesting, she would have the support of all and sundry just as Prof Ishaq Oloyede would enjoy the backing of Nigerians irrespective of their religion.
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