Nigerian Muslims ‘Stunned’ As 2 Popular Islamic Scholars Wash Dirty Linen In Public…2022 ‘Historic’ Wedding Event Pictures Surface Online

Muslims in Nigeria are having their shocking and worst moments following the scenarios that were enacted during the weekend.

Sheikh Habeebulah Adam, who is the head of the popular Markaz Arabic and Islamic Training Centre, Agege, Lagos, caught everyone off guard when he disclosed that he was a victim of spiritual attack in 2022, and pointed an accusing finger at a prominent Islamic cleric, Sheikh Sulaiman Faruq Onikijipa.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that Sheikh Habeebulah Adam talked about the 2022 spiritual attack during the institution’s 2025 Ramadan Tafsir Programme in Lagos on Sunday.

Sheikh Habeebulah Adam, who noted that he had always avoided ‘personal issues’, however said he would this year talk about the rift between him and Sheikh Faruq Onikijipa.

He also touched on Sheikh Onikijipa’s  alleged pent-up anger against his late father, the founder of Markaz Arabic and Islamic Training Centre ,Agege, Lagos, late Sheikh Adam Abdullah Al-Ilory.

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‘I had finished an advanced class, gone to Kano State to learn more and returned to Markaz for lecturing after my father insisted that I stay before Sulaimon Farooq resumed Sanawi’yah Idadi (elementary) class. Who am I fighting with? How can he be saying Sheikh Adam (my father) offended him? The offence is that my father listed all the noble Islamic clerics in one of his books and refused to mention his father.

Who’s even his father? His father is not the heir of the Onikijipa lineage. The people who reside in the compound of the Onikijipa lineage are the original and worthy ones to be referred as the Onikijipa. That’s their tradition in Ilorin. One Alfa Alabi Onikijipa is the recognized heir of the Onikijipa lineage. He’s one of the first students of Sheikh Taju Al-Adaby’ Sheikh Habeebulah Adam submitted while also narrating his near-fatal experience during the wedding ceremony he attended in Ilorin in 2022.

Sheikh Adam listed those who can confirm the veracity of his assertions to include Dr Olaoti, Alfa Haroon Rosheed and Alhaji Yusuf Hamrah.

Sheikh Adam and Sheikh Onikijipa are both highly respected Islamic clerics, and they are residents of Lagos State.

 ‘I am starting a discussion on this to vindicate Imam Fulani, who was framed for my sickness. Although I have been advised not to speak on the matter, I insisted. The sickness happened to me in 2022. Two months before it happened, I went to Ilorin for a wedding ceremony at Imam Fulani’s house. I wanted to go pay homage to the Kwara governor alongside Imam when he came. We were at Mudir Makama’s place when he met us, and one of his boys used a handkerchief to rub my neck. He collected the handkerchief from him before the clerics finally collected it from him.

The second month, I travelled to Ilorin and was at Belgore’s house for a wedding. I was invited to speak, and honestly, nothing happened to me before I got there. When I got to the event with some other clerics who followed me from Lagos, he had already gotten there before me. He was sitting on the right-hand side of the chair that was allotted to me and was pretending to be welcoming me when I appeared. As we sat, he had already put something in my pocket. Although I didn’t know what it was and we never agreed that he should, because I was putting on ‘Agbada’, I didn’t notice on time.

When it was time to begin the lecture that I was invited for, I greeted the people present there and I lost it on the spot. My speech became distorted. Thereafter, some clerics came to my aid. So I ordered that the marriage continue while I observed. Baba Oladimeji Igbaja was noticing me and was praying for my well-being. So one of Belgore’s children conveyed me to a private hospital and was eventually taken to the Ilorin General Hospital. I couldn’t talk neither did I lose my consciousness.

He told my PA that he should help him retrieve the item he threw in my pocket. When he took the content out, it happened to be two gourds. So the clerics that followed me suggested that he should be given the gourds because he claimed that they were for protection, and he must slaughter an animal to appease it after usage.

He left with them. He also noticed that I was still conscious despite not being able to speak. He then returned and brought other items that would be used to touch my head. So, my son disagreed with him. He was now telling the cleric that was with me that I was paralysed. Although they questioned his submission’ he said.

Sheikh Sulaiman Faruq Onikijipa, who is the subject of the accusations, has however denied any connections with the reported spiritual attack that Sheikh Adam had suffered.

The popular Islamic cleric, who is the Mufti of Ilorin, also swore on the Qur’an to prove his innocence.

‘This is the Qur’an and we are in the month of Ramadan. We have not broken our fast and we are in the house of God. Since, I began my life, I have not sworn on the holy book but I will do this time.

God, I’m in your house, if I Sulaimon Farooq, the son of Aminat knows anything about Mudir Markaz’s illness, let the curses in this holy book be mine. I repeat it four times to show my innocence. But if I don’t, and they are framing me up across the world, let the curses be upon them’ he said.

This is really a stressful time for Sheikh Onikijipa  given that this had come barely two months after facing a backlash sequel to the scenario that was enacted at the fidau prayer held for Alhaja Halima Shadiya Anifowoshe in Ijebu-Ode on Friday, January 24, 2025.

Sheikh Suleiman Faruq Onikijipa, who delivered a short sermon at the event, had commented on the ‘ga nu si’ comments made by Alhaji Wasiu Ayinde and explained that he did not mean to insult Islamic clerics while urging K1 to apologize to the Alfas.

The popular fuji musician however noted that offering an apology was not needed because it would somewhat imply that he had truly offended the Islamic clerics which might be counterproductive. He had insisted that he did not intend any offence.

‘To admit guilt means saying, ‘Okay, don’t be angry.’ But there’s no reason for that because I have done nothing wrong. If you admit guilt, you are saying the accusations are true, and they are not’ he had said.

Sheikh Onikijipa had also been made to throw light on past comments following the killing and dismembering of Lawal Hafsah Yetunde by Abdulrahman Mohammed Bello in Ilorin recently.

In the meanwhile, the pictures taken during the ‘historic’ wedding ceremony held at the Isale Ajanaku family house of the Belgores on the 3rd of February 2022, have surfaced online and almost becoming a meme-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you

PICTURES TAKEN AT THE ‘HISTORIC’ WEDDING EVENT