Imam, Community, Others Disown ‘Illegal’ OAU Muslim Students Body

Sanusi is the Chief Imam of the OAU Central Mosque, as well as the Muslim Community of the institution headed by Prof. Isiaka Aransi.

In separate letters addressed to the Dean of Students’ Affairs (DSA) and which were made available to The Whistler, they stated that the activities of the group are not in tandem with dictates of Islam and that of the recognised and registered Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) on campus headed by Akeem Idowu of Public Administration Department.

Prof. Sanusi, who has been the Chief Imam and spiritual head of the institution for over 34 years, said his attention was drawn to the fact that a group of Muslim students put his name on their letter head claiming that he is their staff adviser.

“This group of Muslim Students, who claimed to be MSSN, to me they are fraudsters.

“A number of individuals have called me to confirm if I am indeed a staff adviser to the group. As the spiritual leader of the Muslim community, I was not contacted, even if they do, they know I do not share some philosophy of religion of Islam with them”, Imam stated in the letter to the DSA.

“The activities of the group led by one AbdulRasheed Bakare of Pharmacy department, are not consistent with the values and ethos of Islam and Muslim Community for which Allah has placed me as a leader”, Sanusi, a Professor Medicine insisted.

Sanusi said the only registered body of MSSN was the one headed by Akeem Idowu as recognised by the MSSN at all levels from the branch to the national.

In the same vein, Dr S.O. Oseni of Department of Animal Science in the Faculty of Agriculture expressed surprise and shock that the unregistered Muslim body led by same Bakare, Alajiki Hakeem of Sociology and Anthropology Department and Ismail Abiodun of Demography and Statistics, have not had any communication whatsoever with him before they advertised his name as their staff adviser.

Oseni in his letter to the DSA averred that he does not support in anyway the vision and mission as well as the ideology of the said group. He further claimed that the use of his name on their letter head as a staff adviser without his consent is fraudulent, dishonest and “a major breach of protocol with legal implication”.

Similar letter of disclaimer had earlier been issued by Prof. Isiaka Aransi of Department of Local Government Administration and chairman, OAU Muslim Community.