Sheikh Nuru Khalid, the Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters in Abuja, was reportedly dismissed by the mosque committee for criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.
Remember that the priest, who had already been suspended, gave a sermon last Friday in which he mocked the federal administration for the country’s ongoing security difficulties.
Sheikh Khalid preached certain steps for the voters to consider if the government fails to safeguard their life throughout the sermon.
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“The Nigerian masses should just use one term: safeguard our lives, and we will come out to vote; let us be murdered, and we will not come out to vote, since elections are all you people know,” he had remarked.
Hours after his preaching, the mosque committee suspended the cleric for allegedly violating the tenets of Islam and inciting public outrage.
Reacting to his suspension, the embattled cleric vowed not to be intimidated or bullied by anybody, adding that he would accept whatever God decides for him and Nigerians.
In a statement on Monday, the chairman of the mosque committee, Senator Saidu Muhammed Dansadau, said the committee has sacked the cleric over his controversial sermon last week.
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The committee stated that it relieved Sheik Khalid of his job for insisting that he was right to have criticised the federal government and not showing remorse.
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