Tunde Sholanke
The Alake and Paramount Ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, has called for a truce in the ongoing faceoff among members of the Egba Muslim community in Ogun state.
The monarch spoke during an all-inclusive peace meeting attended by the various interest groups that made up the Egba Muslim community.
He expressed worries that the crisis among Egba Muslim faithful is happening during the Holy month of Ramadan,which signifies mutual peace, tolerance, understanding and forgiveness of fellow Muslims and non-Muslims .
He said,like other monolithic religions, Islam had formal and informal ways of settling disagreements among people, adding that he expected the Egba Muslim leadership to have applied workable solutions as guided by the Holy Quran and Hadith.
After appeals to all sides to the dispute to sheathe their sword, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, directed the Egba Alake Muslim Executive Committee to immediately withdraw the sack letter earlier issued to the Chief Imam of Egba.
He also directed the Chief Imam and the other three Sectional Imams to withdraw the letter of suspension served on Baba Adeen, Balogun Egba Muslim and other Exco members of the Egba Alake Muslim leadership.
Alake advocated the need for the total cessation of hostilities and any other action that might further aggravate the current situation during this fasting period of the Holy month of Ramadan.
He told the Muslim leaders that he expected the Egba Muslim Community to deploy their tested internal crisis management mechanism to resolve all issues, failing which he would summon all interested parties for a peace meeting immediately after Ramadan