A member of the organizing committee, who pleaded anonymity, told BBC Hausa that the planned convention has been postponed to a later date.
The development comes barely two weeks before the event, which was expected to bring together about 30,000 Qur’an memorisers, writers, reciters, and calligraphers from across the country in Abuja.
“The convention was postponed since Thursday night,” the source told BBC Hausa.
The source, however, did not disclose the reason for the postponement but hinted that it might hold after Ramadan.
Earlier, reactions trailed the planned convention, with different scholars expressing divergent views about the legitimacy of the event in Islam.
