“Why is it difficult to be humble?” Akintola asked. “If he doesn’t want to hurt the Muslims and it is just a representation, let him say sorry that he is being misunderstood and that he is sorry if anyone is offended. That statement is enough for us.”
Ishaq Akintola, the director of The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has said the Muslim group might sue Folarin Falana also known as Falz at the expiration of the seven days ultimatum or wait for seven years before it takes the legal action.
MURIC had issued a seven days ultimatum to Falz following the release of his music video ‘This is Nigeria’ that had some hijab wearing girls dancing ‘Shaku Shaku’ in the video.
He said: “ I don’t know. We don’t have a problem, we have told Falz what we’ll do, if we like, we can go to court at the end of the ultimatum, if we like, we can defer it for three or even seven years.
“The video is eternal, we’re not in a hurry and there are other steps that can be taken. There is a government in this country, there is a system, if the system worked such video should not be in circulation.
“There are other options we can explore. Falz is a young man, he is like my own son and I don’t have to ‘push’ him.
Akintola in an exclusive interview with PremiumTimes said MURIC has decided to go to court instead other violent means.
“There are people who will because they are provoked by a production, go to the street, fighting, breaking bottles, breaking windscreen. We are civilised people, we are peace-lovers, law-abiding Nigerians, people who have respect for the rule of law, we have decided to go to court and a lot of Nigerians think that it is just too much.”
Akintola insisted that the organization will sue Falz if he refused to apologize and take down the music video which has now been viewed by millions of people on YouTube.
He also condemned a music group, Muslim Against Terror, that spoke against MURIC’s ultimatum, describing it as fake and faceless.
“Those who are behind Falz are the fake Muslim groups. We know the gimmicks and we are not bothered. You can see, they even issued a statement that has no signature; the name of the leader is not mentioned,”he added.
Reacting to Falz’ explanation that the dancing girls was not to ridicule the music but to depict the abducted Chibok girls, Akintola said the musician should apologize and explain himself humbly.
“Why is it difficult to be humble?” Akintola asked. “If he doesn’t want to hurt the Muslims and it is just a representation, let him say sorry that he is being misunderstood and that he is sorry if anyone is offended. That statement is enough for us.”