“The Nigeria of today is too bad. What we were buying at N200 before is N2,000 now… unemployment is escalating. I don’t want to go personal but the Sharia Council helped the Muslim-Muslim ticket to be successful. We campaigned and supported this government until it came to power, but we are suffering.”
Thus spoke the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, which played a key role in convincing Muslims to usher Tinubu into power.
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