Islamic leader sees no change for Moslems

Sheikh Ibrahim Zak Zaky, leader of Nigeria’s most prominent Islamic movement, said he had little faith in current or future leaders of Nigeria. He told AFP that Moslems, believed to make up some 45 percent of the estimated 108 million population, had no reason to support any of the three parties. “Some of those coming into the elections now are those who looted the treasury earlier and are now coming again,” he said.

After spending more than two years in prison on sedition charges, Zak Zaky was released in December. He leads the Islamic Movement, a Shiite group in the mainly Sunni Moslem north of Nigeria, which preaches a strict observance of Islamic law and has often found itself in conflict with the authorities, AFP noted.