Islamic cleric suspended for criticizing Tinubu, governors

The enactment of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS) has formally suspended a salient Islamic cleric, Sheikh Alkali Abubakar Salihu Zaria, from delivering his yearly Ramadan Tafseer successful Damaturu, Yobe State.

Sheikh Alkali was prevented from continuing his Tafseer sessions astatine the Mokas Mosque aft a high-level gathering convened by the National Chairman of the JIBWIS Council of Ulama, Sheikh Muhammad Sani Yahaya Jingir.

According to the council, the determination followed an alleged breach of the organisation’s preaching guidelines.

The cleric was accused of employing inflammatory connection and straying from the established methodology of Qur’anic interpretation.

The contention arose from a caller Tafseer league during which Sheikh Alkali powerfully criticised the national authorities and determination authorities implicit the ongoing insecurity successful the North.

He decried the worsening plight of citizens astatine the hands of bandits and kidnappers, describing successful stark presumption the suffering endured by victims, adjacent during the beatified period of Ramadan.

He besides faulted what helium described arsenic the posture of authorities governors successful their dealings with the presidency, suggesting that governmental loyalty had overshadowed accountability.

He stated: “One of the signs of catastrophes this procreation volition apt look is the inclination to r...