My sack is price paid for speaking ‘truth to power’ – Sheikh Khalid

Sheikh Muhammad Nuru Khalid has opened up on his sack as Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters mosque for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari, saying it’s a price for.speaking truth to power.

He said it is a price for the voiceless that his appointment was terminated by mosque Committee.

Sheikh Khalid was initially suspended after a Juma’at sermon where he came down hard on President Muhammadu Buhari over insecurity in the country.

The sermon was a reaction to the Abuja-Kaduna train bound bombing by terrorists, which he said President Muhammadu Buhari travelled to Kaduna for campaign, but didn’t visit passengers who sustained injuries in the hospital.

He said the new appointment takes effect from April, 8.

He was also quoted in Vanguard to have been given another appointment by the Management Committee of a new Jum’mat Mosque behind the Central Bank Nigeria, CBN Quarters, Abuja.

According to him, “My sack is a reflection of how Nigeria is today. Many people are hiding under the cover of religion to perpetrate all manner of unwholesome acts.

“Such people would stop at nothing to take away people like me.

“This is the price we pay for aligning with the people and identifying with their sufferings.

“By the Grace of Almighty Allah, I will be leading my new congregation this Friday, because as clerics we need a platform to operate.

“There’s a Jum’mat mosque we built behind the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Quarters, in Abuja; I will now be leading the congregation there.”