We Met Yar’Adua –Imams

The Chief Imam of the Abuja National Mosque, Ustaz Musa told newsmen yesterday after the Friday prayers that he actually met Yar’Adua on Tuesday.

Ustaz Musa said that we together with four Islamic clerics of the Izala Muslim Sect in Katsina State, Sheik Yakubu Musa, Sheik Isa Pantami, and the President of the Supreme Council of Sharia in Nigeria (SCSN), Sheik Ibrahim Datti Ahmed-went to see President Yar’Adua in Aso Rock.

“We met him’, he said. ‘We were led upstairs to see the president. He was not in an incubator as was reported in the media. He was seated with his wife, Turai, by his side. His Aide-de-Camp (ADC), Col Mustapha Onoyiveta was standing behind him. He was not standing”

When a journalists asked the Imam the condition of Yar’Adua, he replied thus: “We offered prayers for his health so that he will come back as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He is not in an incubator.

“When we were going, Yar’Adua stretched out his hand and shook every one of us”.