Imam Dahiru Abubakar of a mosque in Madina quarters of Bauchi metropolis has been removed from his place for campaigning for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election.
The imam was stated to have been subtly campaigning for Tinubu’s reelection throughout preaching after each compulsory prayer.
He was, nevertheless, suspended after he repeated the act following the early morning prayer (Subhi) on Sunday.
“He would inform the congregation after prayer that Tinubu didn’t trigger insecurity and he deserved to be reelected.
A committee was arrange after he did the identical factor final weekend and he was subsequently removed,” a supply stated.
Abubakar informed our correspondent that he had been telling the folks in his preaching that President Tinubu was not the issue as a result of the hardship and insecurity had been attributable to “end times phenomenon.”
He stated, “I’ve been preaching to the folks to cease castigating President Tinubu for the insecurity and financial challenges. They ready to vote for him and provides him one other mandate in 2027 to proceed his mandate.
“My preaching centred on telling folks to embrace concern of God and cease blaming leaders for the insecurity, significantly President Tinubu, as a result of solely God’s intervention can cease the challenges with the facility of prayers, and that didn’t go down effectively with the committee of the mosque.
“My preaching priorities are fear of God and our day-to-day activities. I cited examples of what is happening, especially insecurity in African countries like Sudan, Chad, Mali and others facing crisis. I asked whether President Tinubu was responsible for their insecurity.”
Confirming the incident, chairman of the mosque committee, Imam Abubakar Jibrin, stated, “Our major challenge with him was not only his campaign for Tinubu but the way and manner he gathered many people in front of the mosque and sometimes entered the mosque purposely to discuss politics.”
He added, “The mosque committee sat down with him and cautioned him towards turning the mosque to a political platform due to the Quranic verse which says the Mosque is solemnly for worship of Allah alone. We vehemently rejected using the mosque for political conferences. We have warned him not a couple of times however many occasions, however he didn’t heed our pleas.
“Even though we believe that politics is the process of producing leaders in the country, there are laid down procedures, which are political parties, and the activities should take place in their political party offices and not in the mosque.”
Jibrin additionally stated that, other than campaigning for the president, he was additionally insisting on altering the title of the mosque from Abdullahi Bin Zubbair mosque to Masjid Imam Bola Ahmed Tinubu mosque.
“All the committee members said ‘no’ because the mosque belongs to the community. This mosque has a committee of which I am one of the members, and when he insisted, we rejected the idea and resolved that the mosque name would remain Masjid Abdullahi Bin Zubbair.” Jibrin stated the committee had removed Abubakar from the place and wouldn’t reinstate him.
“He should go and build his personal mosque, or politicians should go buy a mosque for him; that is not our business. Let me clarify that we, members of the committee of the mosque, are not against the candidate of any political party. Our prayer is to Allah to choose the best for the country, be it President Tinubu or any candidate among the presidential candidates that would become a blessing to the country,” Jibrin added.
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