Build a Mosque for Palace Imam, MURIC tells Soun of Ogbomoso

Director of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Professor Ishaq Lakin Akintola

Build a mosque for Palace Imam, MURIC tells Soun of Ogbomoso

An Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has asked the Soun of Ogbomosho, Oba Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye, to build a befitting mosque in the palace for a new Imam he recently installed to function.
Recall that the 28th Soun of Ogbomoso appointed Habib Ayilara as ‘Chief Imam’ for his palace on Friday September 30, 2024, which became controversial.
MURIC in a statement on Wednesday argued that the palace Imam would remain idle for a long time if there is no sign of a mosque within the palace.

The statement was issued by the Executive Director of the organization, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The statement read, “The last may not have been heard from us on the controversial appointment of a ‘chief Imam’ of the palace made by the traditional ruler of Ogbomoso, Oba Ghandi Olaoye. It will be recalled that the king appointed Habib Ayilara as the palace Imam on Friday, 30th September, 2024.
“But feelers reaching our headquarters indicate that there may be no mosque within the palace. It is either there is no mosque capable of holding a Friday congregation for Jumu’ah prayer or there is no mosque at all inside the palace. If this is true, on what basis has the Soun appointed a ‘palace Imam’? How can a whole king appoint a palace Imam without a mosque? How logical is it for a man who has no garden at all to employ a gardener?

“Nullity upon nullity is nullity. It is a settled law that anything based on nothing is a nullity and has no legal validity. Also, it can confer no right or impose any obligation on anybody. If this is so, the office of palace Imam may end up a nullity, a sham, a pipe dream.

“But we want to save the Soun from this apparent cul de sac. The way out, his saving grace, is to build a mosque within the palace, not a small one but a gigantic edifice befitting the status of his revered throne. That is the agenda we want to give His Majesty because the question on the lips of many people is: can there be a palace chief Imam where there is no befitting palace mosque?

“Soun is on a mission to bastardize Islam and that is the cassu belli for all his intrusions into Islamdom. He wants to break the ranks of the Muslims in the land. He is being ably aided and abetted by the governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde whose main mission is to fill all the traditional stools in the state with Christians. That is the only reason he has delayed the installation of the Muslim candidate chosen by the rightful kingmakers of Oyo for the Alaafin stool.