17th January, 2021
PRESS RELEASE:
MURIC CONDOLES SULTAN ON BROTHER’S
DEATH
Sokoto lost an industrious son yesterday
as the state’s Commissioner for Home Affairs, Abdulkadir Jeli Abubakar III,
died after a protracted illness. The deceased was a junior brother to the
Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for
Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar.
Meanwhile a faith-based human rights
organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has commiserated with the
Sultan on the loss of his brother. In a press release signed by the director of
the organization, Professor Ishaq Akintola, MURIC described the commissioner’s
death as sunset at dawn.
“We
are deeply saddened by the death of our leader’s junior brother, Alhaji Abdulkadir
Jeli Abubakar III, the commissioner for Home Affairs in Sokoto State. Though it
is sunset at dawn, we take solace in the inevitability of death as a major
philosophy in Islam. We condole His Eminence the Sultan and President General
of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA). Our thoughts are
with him at this moment. Nigerian Muslims are in mourning mood.
“We share the pain of this huge loss
with the entire members of the Abubakar family and the Sultanate. We also
commiserate with the state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, members of the
state cabinet who were colleagues of the deceased and the good people of Sokoto
State who will definitely miss him.
“May Almighty Allah overlook his
trespasses, shower His divine mercy on him and count him among the inhabitants
of Al-Jannah firdaus in the Hereafter. May Allah also give the family the
fortitude to bear the loss.”
Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)
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