A human rights lawyer and activist, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, has sued the Emir of Ilorin, Dr Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, for allegedly stopping traditional religion worshippers from holding their Isese festival in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Omirhobo who confirmed this to SaharaReporters on Wednesday said he is asking the state high court to declare that the alleged action of the Emir and other Islamic clerics is a breach of the constitutional rights to “freedom of dignity of the human person, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly.
In his suit, Omirhobo requests that the court rule that Ilorin, like the rest of Nigeria, is a multi-religious and multicultural society/city, and that"the respondent has no constitutional powers or authority to ban and/or prohibit the Isese festival in Ilorin, Kwara State, which made it impossible for the applicant to commune, felicitate, celebrate, merry, bond, and worship with the community of African traditionalist/Olokun worshippers.
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