The Muslim community in Ogun State has slammed Governor Dapo Abiodun for snubbing an interactive session organised by the League of Imams and Alfas to engage governorship candidates, ahead of March 11 election in the state.<\/p>\n
The programme which was held between Tuesday and Thursday in Abeokuta, was put together by the Directorate of Leadership and Good Governance of the League of Imams and Alfas in the state .<\/p>\n
11 candidates were invited to the three-day interactive session, out of which
\nseven candidates attended, while four others, including Abiodun, were absent.<\/p>\n
The chairman planning committee, Quassim Sanusi, described the governor\u2019s absence and his inability to send a representative as disrespectful to the Muslim ummah.<\/p>\n
Sanusi said that the governor through his aides got the invitation to participate in the interactive session, slated for Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Our correspondent reports that the Wednesday\u2019s schedule clashed with the presidential rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abeokuta, but the body rescheduled Abiodun\u2019s appearance for the next day, which he failed to honour.<\/p>\n
Apart from Abiodun, three other governorship candidates: the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party, Olufemi Oguntoyinbo; Action Democratic Party, Shokunbi Olanrewaju and National Rescue Movement, Oludayo Ogunrombi were also absent from the event.<\/p>\n
Reacting, Sanusi said, \u201cThe letter was delivered via the formal channel, Dapo Abiodun campaign office and acknowledgement obtained by us. We didn\u2019t get any formal request from the APC candidate for a reschedule of the proposed parley with us. No notification that he won\u2019t show up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe trio of NNPP ,NRM and ADP received our invitations and committed to the event but did not show up after all. In fact, the PDP candidate, Ladi Adebutu who could have been excused due to the death of his mother sent his deputy, Adekunle Akinlade.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe scheduled governor Abiodun for Wednesday which clashed with the campaign of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. We gave him another chance to appear the following day, he never showed up and never got back to us. This is disrespectful to the Imams and Alfas in the state. Others did the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Muslim community in Ogun State has slammed Governor Dapo Abiodun for snubbing an interactive session organised by the League of Imams and Alfas to engage governorship candidates, ahead of March 11 election in the state. The programme which was held between Tuesday and Thursday in Abeokuta, was put together by the Directorate of Leadership […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":211918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"custom","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"single-left","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"floatbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2196,3654,50097,22030,521],"class_list":["post-245086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-2023-election","tag-abiodun","tag-debates","tag-imams","tag-ogun"],"yoast_head":"\n