A former military governor of Rivers State, Major General Zamani Lekwot (retd), on Sunday reacted to the call for his execution by the Supreme Council of Shariah in Nigeria.
The Shariah council on Thursday called for the execution of Lekwot and other Southern Kaduna leaders sentenced to death over the Zango-Kataf riot of 1992.
But the retired major general, in an interview with journalists in Kaduna after an interdenominational service and indoor protest organised by the state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, said his life was in the hands of God and not detractors. He said he was not afraid of the Shariah council.
At the event, the President of CAN, Dr Supo Ayokunle, who said he would meet the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday over the Southern Kaduna killings, faulted the call for Lekwot’s execution.
The SCSN’s Secretary, AbdulRahman Hassan, at a press conference in Kaduna on Thursday, said the only way to restore peace to Southern Kaduna was to revisit the pardon granted Lekwot and others and execute them.
But on Sunday, Lekwot said only God could determine his life and not those craving for violence under the current democratic dispensation.