The Muslim community of South West under the aegis of the Muslim Ummah of Southwest Nigeria (MUSWEN), has denied endorsing President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 general election.
Spokesman of the orgnisation, Alhaji Femi Abbas, in a statement on Monday said that a media report quoting one Mallam Hakeem Adelani of the South-West Muslim Council that Muslims in the region were backing the president’s re-election among other claims was false.
“The quoted fake secretary was also reported to have said that a mosque-to -mosque campaign would soon commence in the region to sensitize the Muslim Ummah towards the clandestine political agenda of some evil politicians who want to use the name of Islam for their evil machinations”, Abbas said.
He added: “MUSWEN is the main umbrella of all the Muslim organizations in the Southwest region and it does not have the so-called ‘Muslim Council’ (of no particular State) on its membership list. MUSWEN is the only Muslim body authorized to speak for the entire Muslims in the Southwest through its Executive Secretary, Prof. Daud O.S. Noibi or its media consultant, Alhaji Femi Abbas. Any other person or persons claiming to be speaking on behalf of the Southwest Muslims can only be a fraudster using a Muslim name to tarnish the image of Islam in the region”.