This was contained in a statement by MURIC’s Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, on Thursday.
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There is currently an ongoing call for Pantami’s resignation or sacking over his past controversial comments on terrorist groups including the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
This is despite the overwhelming call for the resignation or sacking of the minister over his past controversial comments on terrorist groups including Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Pantami has been under fire for once preaching the violent cause of extremist Islamist sects and Jihadist narratives of al-Qaeda and the Taliban before he became a minister in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja, also demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari should immediately sack the minister, given the sensitivity of the issue at stake.
Pantami said this on Saturday at the An-Nur Mosque while responding to the criticism that had followed his past support for Boko Haram and a recent news that the United States of America had put him on a watchlist for supporters of terrorism
The minister said he was young when he made the radical comments, adding that he is now mature and now knows better.
The minister also said he has no issues with Christians, adding that his personal driver, secretary and technical assistant are all Christians
Pantami, an Islamic cleric, also said he has been preaching against the terrorist sect for over 15 years.
Our correspondent gathered that the development followed the intervention of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami; and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.
The FIRS stressed that such information was a misrepresentation of what the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, said in a recent speech
PTECSSAN’s General Secretary, Abdullahi Okonu, made the confirmation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos.
Pantami stated this in Abuja at the unveiling and launching of Nigeria at 60 commemorative postage stamps.
This was one of the resolutions of a meeting of the Ministerial Task Force on NIN-SIM registration on February 26, 2021
Airtel, in a statement in Lagos, said the Minister lauded its effort during a visit to one of the company’s enrolment centres in Abuja.
Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Director, MURIC, gave the commendation in a statement in Abuja on Friday.
The Federal Government through the Minister of Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, had issued the order, forcing millions of Nigerians to storm the offices of the Nigeria Identity Management Commission for NIN registration.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Commission’s spokesman, Kayode Adegoke, on Sunday.
Pantami said this in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Uwa Suleiman, on Friday in Abuja.
They spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.