The Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Osun State has blamed the
state government and the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola for any fracas that
might occur between the Christian and Muslim community from wearing Hijab to
schools by female Muslim students.
This was declared in a statement signed in
Osogbo by the party’s Director, Media and Publicity, Mr Taofik Alabi on behalf
of the party chairman, Chief Ademola Ishola on Sunday, June 12.
Ishola warned the governor to thread softly
on the matter if he doesn’t want his name to be written with “rust pen”.
Ishola stressed further that the governor
should not forget I’m a hurry the statement “equality before the law” if
truly he wants to be balanced up on the matter at hand.
The statement reads: “Mr Rauf Aregbesola
has only succeeded in one aspect of his plan, leaving the other end unattended
to. He should be able to balance up the equation if he wants to prove that his
almighty formula applied to his quadratic equation on the issue of Hijab will,
at the tail end, result to required outcome of plus or minus. And if not,
wonders may be witnessed in our various government secondary schools any moment
from now which no one should be held responsible except Aregbesola.
“This simply means we should not blame the
Christian leaders in the state for seeing a Christian student in a church
outfit to school, or children of masquerade worshipers in his full regalia to
their various schools. Also, plaiting the hair to schools by male students
should not attract any punishment insofar the students are truly descendants of
Sango – the thunder god.
“However, if he signed the court judgement,
then the action is culpable of creating religious crisis in the state. And the
action by the governor can be seeing as an absolute bias, inhumanity, imbalance
and human rights infringement”.
It would be recalled that in 2013, similar
scenario played out in a government secondary school in Iwo where Muslims,
Christians and traditional worshipers were seeing dressed in their various
religiously identified attires to the school assembly, a situation that nearly
led to face-off in the school if not for the timely intervention of the
security agents in the state.
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