El-Zakzaky, whose first name is also spelt “Ibrahim”, founded IMN as a student at ABU to propagate Shi’ite Islam, which gained a significant mileage in 1979 with the Iranian revolution.


Iran became an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Khomeini, who overthrew the country’s monarchy.

TheCable obtained the report of the disciplinary committee which recommended the expulsion of El-Zakzaky and Sani Daura, then president of the Muslim Student Society (MSS), over the incident. Although he made a first-class in economics, he did not graduate officially.

Some MSS members had invaded a party organised by ABU students union to protest the sale and consumption of alcohol by those in attendance.


‘HOW ALCOHOL PROVOKED THE ATTACK’


In the report dated November 2, 1979, and signed by S.S.Gbinde, its secretary, the committee said it was believed El-Zakzaky was one of those behind the invasion that occurred on October 20, 1979.

Ango Abdullahi, then-acting vice-chancellor of ABU and chairman of the committee, had told the members that MSS had written a “warning letter” to the students union against the planned party.

Daura, then MSS leader, was quoted as telling the committee that the group sent the letter to kick against the planned consumption and sale of alcohol “on the grounds that public places were being used and public money was being used.”

Asked why the university should “in isolation disapprove of what is commonly allowed outside”, Daura reportedly responded that that was “a matter of ignorance on the part of the general public.”

“On Saturday, the students union disco party was held as scheduled and about 3am, about nine MSS students came in with clubs and other weapons with the intent to cause trouble,” the committee said in one of its minutes.

‘EL-ZAKZAKY’S ROLE IN THE FRACAS’

El-Zakzaky, who was the secretary-general of the MSS in 1977/78 session, was quoted as telling the committee “he was a party to the peaceful demonstration and not the violent one”.

Asked where he was the night the fracas occurred, El-Zakzaky reportedly said he came back from town at about 5pm, left his room at about 9:15pm for the central mosque “for the usual Saturday discussion” (and) was back about 11pm where he met Sheriff Abuna, Abdullahi and Usman.

“He continued that when he was woken up at night, himself, Sheriff, Abdullahi and another person all rushed out. An alarm was rasied and Abdullahi was arrested and taken to the security office. He admitted that he followed him to the security office and was back to his room at about 3am,” the report read.

The report added that after his interrogation, Abdullahi, who also served as the committee chairman, said he believed “the attack had originated from Ibrahim’s room as most of the people identified with the incident came from his room.”

“Other members of the committee the same views and believed that Ibrahim was one of the brains behind the trouble,” it added.

Simplyleo:
We shiite igbos are okay with him as long as he is on a different camp with buhari. If he like, let him come to our place with his war-like preaching or even kill our people, we prefer him.

BuhariAdvocate:
I hate the way Nigerians blogger propagate lies Ayatollah khomeini didn’t overnight overthrown government without cause.

Maxymilliano:
This report clearly shows that Zakzaky has a 'first-class' brain and is highly intelligent - obviously and far more intelligent than Nigeria's current 'President' and 'Commander-in-Chief' of the Nigerian Armed Forces who has no certificate in his name but tenders only photographs of the schools he attended.

Jimasun:

Nonsense.
Pained IPOB rogue.

ManTiger:
This was exactly how their OAU faction invaded Awo Hall on a Friday night when Awoite are having their usual sacrament, that was sometimes in 2007. They came with club, bottles, sticks and swords, ironically, what these people does to their female counterpart is devilish.

When their mosque inside Awo cafe was invaded by ever militant Awoite, then we discovered up to 13 pregnant ladies who are students and some nursing mothers, we never had an idea of what goes on around that hub before that day. It has to involve the DSS of the school to gain entrance into their hub inside Awo Cafe that day.

Charmingrascal:
So violence has been in his blood for a long a time.




He will stay in detention for a long time.
Some hypocritical Christians are bashing El rufai, calling him a Jihadist with sharia agenda but see nothing wrong in El Zakyzaky's extremism because it is Buhari that is the President.


Hatred for Buhari has blinded their eyes and they can't say the truth.



Zakyzaky is an extremist

TmKonzept:

Wow, Please can you be more explicit about this, Like who was the union president then??

ExAngel007:
El

Iran became an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Khomeini, who overthrew the country’s monarchy.

obailala:
I keep hearing that this man is a terrorist, the man is violent, the man is an extremist, the man is this and that, but when I check our history, his biggest antagonists happen to be mainly Sunni Muslims who we all know have a historical religious prejudice against whatever El Zakyzaky stands for.

A review of our local Nigerian history as it relates with violent extremely also confirms that the Shiites have never been responsible for any acts of public disorder. Rather it happens to just be that about all the acts of extremism related violence and public disorder have been perpetrated by Sunni based groups, yet these people want us to believe we should be more worried about Shiites?... That's rather illogical.

Maxymilliano:

Arindin ...