Buhari, Osinbajo talks about religion, Sharia and national conference report in Kaduna

March 12, 2015



The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, debunked insinuations that he is a religious fanatic who will impose the Sharia Law on Nigerians, stressing that nobody can impose the law on anybody in the country.

This is even as the duo of Buhari and Prof Yemi Osibanjo also vowed to implement the report of the recent National Conference if elected as president and vice president respectively.

“Yes, the APC government will implement the CONFAB report and will look at every good thing about the conference report with a view to implementing it. But don’t forget that the president agreed to submit the report to the National Assembly for implementation, but that has not happened, rather he is making it a campaign issue,” Buhari said.

The presidential hopeful who spoke through Osibanjo in Kaduna at an APC presidential religious interactive session, said, “All my life, I have never supported extremism of any kind and nowhere in my record of service to this nation can this false toga which political opponents have tried so hard to pin on me be substantiated.”

He noted that the nation’s constitution identifies the Shariah Law as synonymous with Customary Law applicable only in matters of personal status such as marriage, divorce and inheritance.

“This has been the case since the 1999 Constitution and just as no one can make any customary or any other religious law the law of Nigeria, Shariah cannot, therefore, be the law of Nigeria. Wicked propagandists continue to spread vicious lies about me for political gain, including the claim that I once asked Muslims not to vote for Christians. This must be the height of absurdity. How can I ever say that, when whoever votes for me would be voting for the Christian running with me on the same ticket?” Buhari queried.

The programme which attracted Muslim and Christian clerics as well as the APC national chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, Kaduna state guber candidate, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, among other chieftains of the party.

“I would like to solemnly declare that in spite of what our detractors say, I am not a religious fanatic of any sort.

“For me, the issue of religion was and should always be a matter of personal personal conviction and this approach to religion has defined my work and interactions all my life, including my tenure in office as military Head of State.

“The religion of all those I worked with was never a factor in their progress or in what happened to them.

“All that mattered then and should still matter today, are competence, integrity and readiness to be fair to all.

“Government has no business preferring one religion to the other as the role of government is to protect lives and property of citizens and to respect and protect their constitutional rights.

“One critical freedom that every government must strive to protect is the liberty for citizens to exercise their faiths, Christians and Muslims or others, in a lawful manner without fear or hindrance and to prosecute those who use religion as an excuse to destroy homes, schools and places of worship.”

luvinhubby:
And APC as a party vehemently kicked against the convocation of the confab, now Buhari is telling us he will implement the report of a conference that his party APC refused to participate in or send a delegate.

And who will believe that a Fulani man will want Nigeria restructured and stop a section of the country funding the laziness of the other section.

APC & Buhari should please keep quiet on the issue of confab report & allow the man that convocated the conference implement the outcome.

dein77:


Yes. We are listening to the inconsistent APC!

After initially rejecting and bad mouthing it, they are now telling us they will implement what they had earlier waved off as nothing. Epic instability!

Rawani:
I hope TANoids are listening.

luvinhubby:
And APC as a party vehemently kicked against the convocation of the confab, now Buhari is telling us he will implement the report of a conference that his party APC refused to participate in or send a delegate.

And who will believe that a Fulani man will want Nigeria restructured and stop a section of the country funding the laziness of the other section.

APC & Buhari should please keep quiet on the issue of confab report & allow the man that convocated the conference implement the outcome.

Jesusloveyou:
and d same gej kick against snc,when apc were clamouring for it initially,but gej convene when it reach d stage,he can not implement it again,apc knew d game this ogogoro man wants to play,can he implement that wasted confab now?d confab wil be dead by may 28,gej is just a deceiver,buhari wil convene sovereign national conference next 6months.

clevvermind:
keep quiet. Nigerians can't be deceived by you. we are voting for Jonathan. don't take us back to your evil days as head of state. we are already marching forward as a nation. we are wise now.

Jesusloveyou:
keep quiet,u want to remain in dis present evil corrupt govt,that kill innocent soul more than d past regime,u must be a fool to support dis present evil corrupt gay president.buhari wil take us back to d good old days,where corrupt pple wil be afraid to steal.dis present day evil must stop in jesus name.

Jesusloveyou:
keep quiet,u want to remain in dis present evil corrupt govt,that kill innocent soul more than d past regime,u must be a fool to support dis present evil corrupt gay president.buhari wil take us back to d good old days,where corrupt pple wil be afraid to steal.dis present day evil must stop in jesus name.

luvinhubby:

Did you read the post at all?
Buhari is saying he will implement conference report, you his supporter is saying he will convene another conference.

It is an option to be deceived my friend & i have chosen not to be.

Jesusloveyou:
d so call leader of afenifere don't know what they are asking for,who is going to implement that'come and chop' confab,that wil expire on may 28,buhari is saying,don't be deceive by gej antics, he is sincere and trust worthy,he wil convene and implement,because he cannot implement this charade confab report that wil die before buhari comes in.u just read without understand.