Sultan Condoles Makinde, Muslim Community Over Ajala, Brother’s Deaths

The Sultan of Sokoto and president-general of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has mourned the two deaths in less than 24 hours, which befell the Nigerian Muslim Ummah and the Christian community in Lagos and Oyo States.

The incidents occurred on Thursday January 23 and Friday January 24, respectively.

He expressed his condolences on the death, which struck at a time between Salatul maghrib and ishai taking the life of accomplished and renowned Islamic scholar and television broadcaster, Amir Qamardeen Ajala, and Friday with the termination of the life of Engr Sunday Makinde, an elder brother of Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde.

The Sultan’s media team in a statement on Saturday said, he recalled his tremendous contributions to Islamic Da’wah via the mimber (temple) and television, radio and the social media, as well as the great effort he made at ensuring a hitch-free Hajj exercise.

On Sunday Makinde’s death, the Sultan told Governor Makinde to “Take heart as the death of your beloved elder brother was beyond all of us.

“May God grant you and the entire Makinde’s family members including the wife and children of the deceased the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.”