Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, the president of Nigeria’s Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and Sultan of Sokoto has condemned the Boko Haram rebel group and called on Nigerian Muslims to shun them in a sermon on 25 May at the National Mosque in Abuja. Vice president Namadi Sambo, who was also at the prayer service as the speech was given, listened to the Nigerian Muslim spiritual leader as he called on the country’s Muslims to support the government in the search for the 234 schoolgirls who were kidnapped from Chibok, Borno State, last month.
“Terrorism has no place in Islam. We must rise up, as always, with one voice to condemn all acts of terrorism, condemn those terrorists wherever they are and try our possible best as Muslims to ensure peace reigns in our community,” Abubakar said, according to Nigerian Watch.