By Jude Atupulazi
The chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, Alhaji Gidado Siddiki and immediate past MACBAN Chairman, South East Zone, has called on Muslims to embrace the cardinal lessons of the Ramadan and Eid-el-Fitr by submitting to the will and dictates of Allah for peace amongst the peoples of the world.
Siddiki while speaking to Fides said he joyfully joined the Muslim Ummah across the globe in thanking Almighty Allah for seeing them through the Ramadan and for his mercies and guidance. He enjoined Muslim and Christian brethren in South East Nigeria and everywhere to therefore embrace the lessons of the season for the good of humanity.
His words, ‘Evidently, the mounting challenges caused by the prevailing harsh socioeconomic realities and the anxiety upon our fledgling political experiences are capable of stretching our elasticity for survival to its limit; but in all of these, Allah’s wish that we will triumph is supreme and should be jealously upheld by everyone. The singular hope that we will outlive the trials of the moment and successfully march into prosperity should inform our sturdy endurance.
‘This year’s Ramadan gave us another opportunity to intimately appraise the totality of our being – the material and the spiritual. While we will hardly just wish away the hardship visited on us by the actions and inactions of the authorities that superintended over our means of livelihood these past months.
I enjoin us, particularly South East members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria, to be upbeat in our quest for more appreciable terms of engagement with the governments of the geopolitical zone of our residence. We are manifestly appreciative of known expressions of warm fellowship as we solicit for expansion and sustenance of such expressions for a more flourishing business environment for our people in the South East.’
Siddiki who is the immediate past chairman of MACBAN South East Zone, thanked God for sustaining the country and for giving Nigerians the aptitude and resilience to forge ahead, unbroken by what he described as the many tugs that threatened to undermine their legitimate business interests in the past.
‘I pray that the newness that Eid-el-Fitr enthrones a deeper understanding and greater sense of communality amongst Nigerians of different trades and tribes.
‘I most sincerely thank the patrons, board of trustee members and the entire hierarchy of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria for their consistent advocacy for peaceful coexistence as the only panacea for sustainable progress in Nigeria.
‘I thank the entire leadership of the South East states for insisting on the efficacy of the Igbo’s “Nwanne di na mba” dictum which encourages unconditional hospitality amongst Nigerians wherever the search for livelihood takes them.
‘May Allah perfect his plan for our country, to his glory and to the joy of every Nigerian,’ he prayed.
