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.
