The General Overseer of El-Buba Outreach Ministries, Prophet Isa El-Buba, has taken a swipe at an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Yahya Jingir, for referring to Christians as as infidels.
Jingir, in a video circulating on social media, said whoever does not want to accept a Muslim-Muslim ticket should leave Nigeria because the country belongs to Muslims, referring to Christians as ‘infidels’.
Responding, El-Buba accused the cleric of promoting religious division at a time when northern Nigeria is grappling with insecurity, poverty, banditry, drug abuse, criminality and the displacement of communities.
According to El-Buba, religious and political leaders should focus on bringing Nigerians together and finding solutions to the country’s challenges instead of making statements capable of deepening religious tensions.
He stated that he was addressing Nigerians with a ‘very serious, heavy heart’, stressing that leaders should, particularly as they grow older, begin to think about how Nigerians can live together peacefully.
“I’m coming to every Nigerian with a very serious, heavy heart, because I thought that at this stage of our lives, especially when we’re getting older, we should begin to think about Nigeria and how we can all live together in peace,” El-Buba said.
“You called Christians infidels? You mindless creature. Are you not ashamed? Are you not ashamed that banditry is here in the north? Criminality is here in the north. It is here in the north you have the highest level of drug addicts,” he said.
El-Buba further said that he had personally supported thousands of Muslims across northern Nigeria despite having no family or personal relationship with many of them.
‘Mindless creature’ – El-Buba tackles Sheikh Jingir for calling Christians ‘infidels’