As the controversy over the death sentence passed on...

As the controversy over the death sentence passed on Safiya Tungar-Tudu for adultery continued, an Islamic Scholar, Abdulfattai Adeyemi, urged the Sokoto Sharia committee to exercise restraint in carrying out the punishment.
Adeyemi, who spoke with a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, described Safiya's case as "a very delicate matter to look into because of the environment we found ourselves.
"I think the Sharia committee members will look very well into it before they do the best of what Allah will direct them to do".
Adeyemi, a 'Dawah' (propagation) officer with the Islamic Education Trust (IET), assured Nigerians that justice would be done in Safiya's case.
"I also believe it is better to make a mistake of not punishing somebody than to make a mistake of punishing somebody wrongly," he said.
He said that there were competent Islamic scholars in Sokoto who were conscious of the rules, saying: "our prayer is that Allah would guide them right so that they would not do what is wrong."
On the criticism that greeted the death sentence, Adeyemi said: "the Sharia committee has to do what is right. It does not matter whether the world accepts it or not; what is right will always be right."