By Fanen Ihyongo, Kano
The defence lawyers to Kano Islamic preacher, Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara charged with blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad on Thursday withdrew their services.
The embattled cleric before the Upper Sharia Court accused the lawyers of “professional misconduct” including “extortion of funds, wrongful relationship with his wife and deliberately misleading him in the case.”
Spokesperson for the five-member legal team, Rabiu Shuaibu Abdullahi, said they were not legally in a position to reveal what happened between them and their client.
He advised the cleric to take his case to a proper channel within two weeks or “we will take action against him.”
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The court gave the cleric two weeks, beginning from Friday to get another lawyer to represent him.
“We are legal practitioners and are guided by professional ethics, so there is no way we will make what happened between us and our client public.
Spokesperson for the state government’s legal team, Prof Yusufari, SAN, said the court confirmed that the cleric was healthy, based on the result presented before it.
Kabara is being held after the government accused him of “making controversial religious commentaries and statements regarded as mortifying the companions and Holy Prophet Muhammad.”
If found guilty, the cleric could be sentenced to death by hanging.
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