Sacked Abuja Imam, Sheikh Muhammad Nuru Khalid, gets new appointment 24 hours after he was fired. Sheikh Khalid will now lead a mosque behind the CBN Quarters, in Abuja.

Sheikh Khalid, the Chief Imam, was sacked by the Apo mosque steering committee following the Juma’at sermon he delivered on Friday, April 1, 2022.

The mosque committee considered the sermon to be anti-government. The cleric during the sermon had criticised President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, lawmakers, parents, and religious leaders over the rising insecurity in the country. Sheikh Khalid had pointed out the government’s failure to stop the growing spate of killings in the country.

According to him, he will be leading his new congregation this Friday, because as clerics they need a platform for operation.

Sheikh Khalid is the Founder of Islamic Research and Da’awah Foundation in Abuja.

Source: pulse.ng

Edited by: Ngozi Anna Akunne