{"id":171585,"date":"2022-04-03T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T11:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=171585"},"modified":"2022-04-03T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T11:15:08","slug":"anti-govt-sermon-suspended-abuja-imam-breaks-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/03\/anti-govt-sermon-suspended-abuja-imam-breaks-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-govt sermon: Suspended Abuja Imam breaks silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters Mosque, Shiekh Nuru Khalid, who was suspended by the committee in charge of the worship centre over a sermon considered to be \u201canti-government\u201d has reacted to his suspension.<\/p>\n<p>In a post written in Arabic, Khalid said \u201cGod is the most powerful. He gives (enthrones) and takes away power (dethrones) from whomever He wishes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Khalid, popularly known as Digital Imam, said, \u201cOh God! the master of sovereignty, you give sovereignty to whom you please, and seize sovereignty from whom you please, you honour whom you please and you abase whom you please, all good is in your hands, indeed you have power over all things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/02\/popular-abuja-imam-sheikh-khalid-suspended-for-criticising-buhari-over-train-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shiekh Nuru Khalid was suspended<\/a> by the Mosque\u2019s steering committee for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari over the last Monday night\u2019s attack on an Abuja-Kaduna train.<\/p>\n<p>While delivering the sermon, Khalid, who is also the Founder of Islamic Research and Da\u2019awah Foundation, said, \u201cNigerian masses should resort to only one term which is \u2013 protect our lives, we will come out to vote; let us be killed, we will not come out to vote, since it\u2019s only elections that you people know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need prayers. We need supplication. This is very important at a time when Nigeria is facing a very serious challenge. Everything is not working well. People are dying. Our roads are not secured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost part of the country is not secured. The government is always telling us that they are doing their best. But we deserve more than that best as citizens because we want a secured Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you are telling us is that your concern is about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/03\/19\/all-those-vying-for-2023-elections-are-ritualists-pastor-ibiyeomie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 elections<\/a>. And what I am telling the citizens is to send a message that we are going to vote under one condition. Nigerian masses should resort to only one term which is \u2013 protect our lives, we will come out to vote; let us be killed, we will not come out to vote, since it\u2019s the only language you understand, we are going to speak it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur lives are important to us. We want to live. Our wealth and dignity are is important as well. You must do something to secure our lives and make our security workable. We cannot afford to be moving like this. People attacking our trains, killing our people as if there is no government in this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/03\/26\/breaking-bandits-storm-kaduna-airport-stop-aircraft-from-taking-off\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bandits<\/a>) can gather and disseminate intelligence information as if they are a government of their own while our government cannot share information and stop the rubbish on our ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to BBC Hausa Service, the Chairman of the Mosque Committee, Senator Saidu Muhammed Dansadau, in a statement accused Khalid of \u201cinciting public outrage\u201d, saying his preaching negated the tenets of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read in part, \u201cI am informing you that you have been suspended from leading prayers in the Apo Legislative Quarters Mosque from today being April 2nd, 2022 until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision was taken out of the inciting Friday sermon you delivered on April 1st, 2022; where you advised people not to vote come 2023 general elections unless politicians respond to some critical questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should have advised them to vote out those that transgress the Almighty and breach people\u2019s social contract as well as the state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters Mosque, Shiekh Nuru Khalid, who was suspended by the committee in charge of the worship centre over a sermon considered to be \u201canti-government\u201d has reacted to his suspension. 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