Insurgency Can’t Divide Nigeria, NSCIA Insists …As Protest Trail Town Union Polls

The Nigeria Supreme
Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), said on Wednesday,  that insurgency would “never divide’’ the country.
The Vice-President of the Council, Alhaji Dauda Ajagu, said in Onitsha, Anambra, recently that no amount of threat by insurgents especially the Boko Haram sect, would disintegrate Nigeria.
He urged the Federal Government to intensity action against the sect as it was tarnishing the image of Islam and the country’s quest for development.
The cleric lauded the government and the international community on the successes recorded so far in the fight against insurgents in the country and the West Africa sub-region.
Ajagu also said that clerics were still praying for the rescue and safe return of the abducted Chibok school girls in Borno.
“Islamic clerics are continuously praying for the peace and unity in the country  and the unity of the country is not negotiable.’’
In another development, the people of Ugbene community in Awka North local government area on Tuesday, protested against the conduct of the town union’s elections.
The more than 100 protesters who gathered at the Government House, Awka, alleged that the May 24 election was fraudulent and rigged in favour of a particular candidate.
Speaking during the protest, the leader of the group and President of Ugbene Ambassadors Club, Mr Aaron Onwelukwue, said that mercenaries were hired by powerful indigenes in buses to abuse the election process.
“We pray Your Excellency to call for the cancellation of the Ugbene Town Union election of May 24, 2014 as the recognition of such is a recipe for a continuous crisis in Ugbene. “Save our souls as we, the people of Ugbene, are under siege because of the richness of some people and the earlier you intervene, the better for us because that election was a rape of democracy,” he said.
He called on Governor Willie Obiano to cancel the election and conduct a new one that would be free, fair, credible and acceptable to the peace loving people of the town.
The protesters were stopped at the gate of the Government House by security men.