I will lead a Jihad against the Senate – Auchi ruler threatens ~ Zeniths Blog

I will lead a Jihad against the Senate – Auchi ruler threatens

– A ruler in Auchi, Edo state has kicked against the inheritance bill that allows equal inheritance right for both male and female

– The ruler, Otaru of Auchi has threatened to lead a religious Jihad against the Senate if the bill was passed into law

– Otaru claimed there are already stipulating law on inheritance in the shariah law.

Alhaji Haliru Momoh, Ikelebe III, the Otaru of Auchi has said he will personally lead a spiritual Jihad against the Senate if the upper chamber of the National Assembly passes the bill on inheritance before it.

A bill seeking equal share of inheritance between the male and the female is currently before the Senate for consideration.

Auchi ruler threatens to start Jihad if Senate passes Inheritance bill

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Accoring to Vanguard, Otaru, the chairman of Edo state chapter of the Council of Islamic Affairs, said during the 20th Auchi Day annual celebration on Sunday, January 8, that the bill about inheritance had been passed over 1,500 years ago by the Almighty God in the Holy Quran.

Otaru said: “We have Shariah where issue of inheritance has been decided. In Auchi here, we have a committee that deals with the sharing of inheritance in a way that ensures justice because it is taken from the Quran and we have had peace in our community.”

Stressing his disapproval of the

bill in the Senate, Otaru asserted: “I will lead a jihad (spiritual war) against the Senate if they should alter the inheritance of the Quran. Who are they to alter it? What is ordained by God, nobody should distort it.”

In his remark, the Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki assured the traditional ruler that Auchi community would start to benefit from the policies of his government.

While promising to revitalize the fertilizer processing plant in Auchi, he called on the traditional ruler to appeal to the youths to let peace reign so investors could thrive in the area and the youths would get jobs.

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Meanwhile, the Nigerian Senate, in its first plenary in 2017 on Tuesday, January 10, has rejected the nomination of Professor Akinwande Akintunde as chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Deputy Senate majority leader Ibn Na’allah noted that that since the chairman nominee Prof Akintunde did not appear, it may be that he is not interested in the job.