A prominent Islamic cleric, Sheikh Habeebullah El-Ilory, has advised members of former Kwara State governor, Alhaji Mohammed Lawal’s family, not to join partisan politics for now.

Delivering a sermon at a prayer session and lecture organised to mark the sixth anniversary of Lawal's death in Ilorin, the cleric told the former governor's immediate family that they should take no one as enemy in the state nor think of going out to fight anybody for whatever purpose.

Sheikh El-Ilory said that the children were still relatively young to dabble into the politics of Kwara notwithstanding their privileges in life.

"To the children of the late Lawal I have this to say; don't take anyone as your enemy or your father's enemy, don't dabble into issues of ethnic divisions within Ilorin because the best thing for Ilorin is to remain as one united entity. We should stop identifying ourselves as Fulani, Afonja, Gambari and so on because in the real sense we have lost those identities.

"Please don't create enemies for yourselves but work closely with those who have stood with your father's ideal all these years and who are still working with the vision. And for you Hakeem don't join politics for now, please."

The cleric, who lamented the loss of prominent Ilorin sons like Lawal, Major General Abdulkarim Adisa, General Tunde Idiagbon and just last week, Dr. Olusola Saraki, said from history it will take the community another century to get their likes.

He charged followers of the former governor to wake up in making provisions for the regular maintenance of a magnificent mosque built by the deceased as a centre for Islamic education.

Also speaking, the first son of the late former governor, AbdulHakeem, said his late father taught all the family that he had no enemy and they too should have none.

The sixth anniversary drew an unusual crowd of associates and former followers of the late ex-governor who probably due to the recent reconciliation between the state government and the Lawal political family attended the event.