The conferment of a national honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR), on Imam Abdullahi Abubakar, is not just deserved, it is the finest statement President Buhari has made on religious freedom in our polity. The act also repudiates, even if momentarily, the dictum that a prophet has no honour in his homeland. I am not particularly concerned about some of the issues that attended the ceremony itself. For instance, the exhibition of disrespect, incivility, and a display of counterculture by a very few of the…
Imam Abdullahi Abubakar: Befitting Honour to a Prophet at Home By Omoniyi Ibietan Ph.D
