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Outrage Over Afenifere’s Comparison Of Igboho To Prophet Muhammed

Islamic groups have attacked Afenifere for comparing Sunday Igboho to Prophet Muhammed and Moses.

Gatekeepers News reports that Islamic groups have attacked Afenifere for comparing Sunday Adeyemo better known as Sunday Igboho to Prophet Muhammed and Moses, telling the group to to tender an unreserved apology.

Afenifere had recently compared the activist’s current travail in Benin Republic to that of Prophet Muhammad in Madinah.

The Former Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani has urged Afenifere to tender an unreserved apology to Muslims for blasphemy against their religion.

Senator Sani while reacting to Sahara Reporters’ retraction of the blasphemous report published on its website, described the retraction action as apt, calling for an acceptance of their apology.

“The originator of the sacrilegious utterances, the Afenifere should tender an unreserved apology to the Muslims whose religious sensitivities has been utterly violated.

“We have enough crisis and conflicts in our country, a ‘dangerously supplementary’ one is not needed”, he said.

Similarly, the Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has asked the leading Yoruba social-political organisation, Afenifere, to tender an unreserved apology.

MURIC, in a statement signed by Professor Ishaq Akintola, attacked Afenifere, saying that the statement by the socio-cultural group not only sacriledgious but outrageous and audacious.

“Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has compared Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a. Igboho, to Prophet Muhammad. This is totally unacceptable.

“It is not only sacriledgious but outrageous and audacious. Afenifere has manifested categorical desertification of discernibility coupled with an alarming height of tramadolised hero-worshipping. It is provocative, preposterous, repugnant and nauseating.

“Afenifere did not stop at comparing Igboho to Muhammad. It also compared him to Moses (Prophet Musa, peace be upon him). Moses was a prophet of God for crying out loud. But is Igboho a prophet?

“Muhammad was invited to Madinah by the Madinese whereas Igboho was not invited by the people of Cotonou. Muhammad was a prophet of God, Igboho is not. Muhammad’s constituency is the whole world while Igboho’s activities are restricted to South Western Nigeria.”

The statement added that it is therefore an exercise in excessive exaggeration for Afenifere to have compared Igboho to a universal prophet whose followers in their billions spread across all the continents and countries of the world.

Also, Federation of Muslim Women Associations of Nigeria (FOMWAN) has condemned the leadership of Afenifere over the comparison of Sunday Igboho to Prophet Muhammad.

The association said it was wrong for the Yoruba group to liken the travails of Igboho to that of any of the prophets of God.

Oyo State Amirah of FOMWAN, Dr. Bushra Oloso, while speaking warned individuals and associations to desist from likening the botched plan by Igboho to escape to Germany through Cotonou, Benin Republic to the travails suffered by some Prophets of God in the hands of oppressors.

Oloso in a statement insisted that her statement became necessary following the stories credited to the Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Mr Jare Ajayi on Monday.

She said, “Most of Allah’s Messengers if not all emigrated at one time or the other.

“However, the migration of Prophet Muhammad differed from other Prophets because it was the beginning of the establishment of full Islamic practice by the early Muslims.

“At Medina, Prophet Muhammad established the best nation ever raised and from there Islam was embraced by many nations and tribes.”

Oloso admonished Afenifere not to over glorify Sunday Igboho to the extent of conferring the status of the saviour of the Yoruba people on him just as Allah appointed His Prophets to liberate their people from the shackles of one oppression or the other.

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