Sheik Nuru Khalid, the founder of the Islamic Research and Da’wah Foundation, has expressed regret that just a few Imams had the courage to speak out about the country’s current circumstances.
Sheik Khalid, who was suspended and later sacked by the mosque’s committee after criticizing the Buhari administration in one of his sermons as the Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters Central Mosque, Abuja, said clerics should speak in the overall development of the country on a Trust TV program called Daily Politics on Wednesday.
“Very few Imams talk about the awful condition in the country,” he explained. And now is the moment to say something. Don’t be terrified if you’re an Imam. Let them take their mosque if you speak the truth.”
He initially learned of his ban via the media, he said.
He claimed it was a one-man show because no committee met before to the suspension, adding that if they wanted him to leave, they should have sought him personally and he would have gladly left.
The Mosque, according to Sheik Khalid, was founded by a Muslim committee in the parliamentary quarters and is not owned by the government.
Senator DanSadau, on the other hand, used the mosque platform to defend President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, according to the Imam.