Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called for the sacking of the Imam, National Mosque, Abuja, Professor Ibrahim Maqari, over his comment on the murder of Deborah Samuel Yakubu, who was lynched for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad.
Abuja Chief Imam earlier said people should not criticize Muslims for defending Prophet Muhammad.
Soyinka accused the Islamic cleric of directing his followers to take the law into their own hands in the name of religion.
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He spoke in Abuja on Saturday during the one-year remembrance of the late former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, and the launch of Attahiru’s biography written by author, Niran Adedokun.
The Nobel laureate lamented lynching in the name of religion, adding that the “apostate of the creed of humanity, Professor Maqari, must be removed from office.”