PRESS STATEMENT:
Sultan of Sokoto calls for immediate launch of investigation on alleged assassination of Igbo Muslim Army officer
*Wants end to hate, bad mouthing against minority Muslim, Christian anywhere
The Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, has described the incessant hate and bad mouthing being reported against the minority Igbo Muslims in South East Nigeria as one sad development that cannot stand along effort on nation-building.
The Co-President World’s Religions for Peace headquartered in New York made this description while reacting to the recent assassination, allegedly, of Nigeria’s most senior Igbo Muslim Army officer, which occurred at his residence in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, recently.
The Sultan said, “As Muslims, we continue to act by showing love and encouraging peaceful coexistence, tolerance, unity and restraints as enjoined upon us by Islamic rules, regulations and guidance laid down for us in the Glorious Qur’an. For this reason, the Federal Government and the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have gotten to put heads together and get to the roots of circumstances that led to the shooting at alleged close range of Army Colonel Abdur-Razaq AbdlKarim Ode, a fine military intelligence officer that both Muslim Ummah and traditional communities in the country especially region he hailed from were proud of.
“To allow the killing of any single Nigerian soul taken out without getting to the root of the cause and bringing the culprits to justice with a view disallowing repeat of same is not a good way to talk about a serious country, much more when the life extrajudicially taken is that of a soldier of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The cause of this killing and attempt on the life of his family must be found out and the government and other appropriate quarters do the needful,” Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar demanded.
He then prayed for Allah to forgive the soul of Colonel Abdur-Razaq AbdlKarim Ode, who passed by the ugly and condemnable incident, and admit it to Al-Jannah Firdaos, Amiin.
Signed:
Prince Bashir Adefaka,
For: Media Team of the Sultan of Sokoto.
Wednesday August 5, 2026.
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