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If you are interested to know more about the Shitte
Muslim sect, you need to read this article written by
Dr Abdussamad Umar Jibia and it was addressed to
President Buhari when he was the President-elect.

One thing I have learned this night is that we have
two Major Muslims sects in Nigeria. Sunnis and Shitte.
We have the smaller sects but these two dominate the
Muslim population in the land
So read and learn for yourself about the Shitte sect
who are currently trending in the news:

Hear the Doctor as he speaks:

However, my reason for writing you this letter is not
Boko Haram. It is something worse than Boko Haram.
Yes worse. It is a sect more dreadful than Boko
Haram that has established itself in all strata of
Muslim Ummah in Nigeria. They are in the civil service.
They are in business. Their members have deliberately
come close to several unsuspecting politicians of
note. It is Shia.

As a Muslim, you don’t need someone to tell you about
Shia. But for the benefit of those who do not know, I
would say the little they need to know. Shia is about
the oldest sect in Islam. After the death of
Muhammad (peace be upon him) who was both a
messenger of Allah and a political leader, the Islamic
faith continued to grow under the rightly guided
Caliphs. It was during this period that the present day
Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and Palestine came under the
control of Islam.

However, the Jews who were expelled from the city of
Madina by the Holy prophet because of their treachery
and were watching these developments with agony
decided to react by sponsoring some of them to
pronounce Islam in order to have the license to cause
confusion among Muslims. It was these ‘converts’
under the leadership of one Abdullah bn Saba that
succeeded in sponsoring the rebellion against the third
Caliph, Othman. They first articulated his
shortcomings, amplified and disseminated them around
the Caliphate. Thereafter they called for his
resignation; when he refused to resign they killed
him. The Muslim Ummah chose Ali, a cousin of the Holy
Prophet to lead them after Othman, but these very
people, who now called themselves Shiat Ali (the sect
of Ali) frustrated his efforts to track and punish the
killers of Othman. They now made Shia a symbol of
love for Ali and other relations of the prophet and
hatred for the other caliphs and the rest of the
prophet’s companions whom they claimed betrayed the
trust of the prophet.

Shia was embraced by Persians because they saw it as
an opportunity to distort a religion that destroyed
their kingdom and culture. After the Iranian
revolution which was led by Shiite scholars, the
government of Iran set an agenda to spread Shia to
other countries. In Nigeria, this task was to be
carried out by one Ibrahim Yakub Elzakzaky. The man
Elzakzaky devised several strategies to achieve his
mission. First, he banked on the gullibility of some
Muslim youth who could easily be misled by slogans like
‘Islamic revolution’, ‘establishment of Islamic state’,
‘total change’, etc. His group, who initially tagged
themselves as Muslim brothers (meaning, of course,
that other Muslims are not their brothers) organized
lectures and several demonstrations in their first
phase. In those days in the 1980s he told everyone
that he was not a Shiite, his group was not out to
promote Shia and that what they wanted was Islam
and nothing else. The other methods used by
Elzakzaky to introduce Shia to his followers were the
same methods that Shiites have used over their long
history. One of them is women. Shiites legalize
temporary marriage. In Shia it is possible to marry a
woman for two hours. Many people find it difficult to
understand why young men and women who are
supposed to be in school would trek from cities like
Kano, Gusau and Katsina to Zaria, spending nights
along the way in order to listen to Elzakzaky. This is
the secret. It is an open one because the Shiites do
not deny they do it. What they may deny is wife
swapping, which many people accuse them of doing.
There is plenty more on Shiites and their doctrine.

What, however, would be of major concern to your
Government is their notoriety in dealing with
Government and fellow Nigerians. Way back in the
1990s, the Shiites constituted a major threat to the
public in Kaduna state. For a period, any Islamic
preacher who dared to criticize Ibrahim Elzakzaky or
Ayatullahi Khomaini in his preaching was attacked and
beaten in his house in the presence of his wife and
children. Infuriated by their actions, the Government
of Col. Hameed Ali staged a clampdown on them and
most of their leaders were arrested and prosecuted.
This made them to change their strategy for a while.
The main activities of Shiites are demonstrations
which they organize on specific occasions like the
Quds and Ashura days. During these demonstrations,
they block main roads in cities across the North and
intimidate the public including the Police whose
permission they do not seek. Last year, this type of
event led to a clash between the Army and the sect
members leading to the death of several people
including three children of Mallam Ibrahim Elzakzaky.
In addition, these heretics organize an annual
pilgrimage to Zaria for which they trek in large
groups from certain points to go and meet their
leader. In the process of this long trek, they block
major highways and create a lot of havoc for
travelers. This is watched by the security agents and
nothing is done to stop it.

Like the Boko Haram of Muhammadu Yusuf, the Shiites
have no regard for any rule, no matter how harmless
it is. For example, after a series of bombings in Kano
metropolis, the Government of Kano state banned
riding motorcycles after six o clock in the evening and
carrying passengers on same. The public complied and
defaulters were openly arrested and punished. The
only group of people that did not comply were the
Shiites. Even when the implementation of the ban was
at its peak they rode motorcycles in the night on
major roads in Kano sometimes carrying more than
one passenger and none of them would be arrested. A
friend of mine once stopped and asked the Police why
they were not arresting Shiites. The answer was, ‘Ai
su yan kungiya ne’, meaning ‘they are members of a
group’. The Police was obviously afraid of triggering
another crisis, but at the same time giving the
impression that some people are above the law.

The Shiites are well connected. Since most of their
leaders including Mallam Ibrahim Elzakzaky himself
are graduates, it has been easy to fix themselves in
all sectors of the economy. Although they publicly
condemn the Nigerian political system and do not
participate in partisan politics, the group may have
been enjoying the support of certain politicians. For
example, a former civilian governor of one of the
Northern states patronized a Civil Engineering firm
controlled by professionals belonging to this group.
The group activities were allegedly sponsored by
proceeds of the many contracts he awarded to them in
addition to whatever little might come from Iran and
other wealthy members. Ordinarily there is nothing
wrong in that since they are also Nigerians, but the
fact that some of those professionals involved were
dismissed from public service for alleged breach of
peace raised doubts about the action of that
governor.

Mallam Ibrahim Elzakzaky lives in affluence even when
most of his followers live in abject poverty. Added to
these is the large number of guards that accompany
him wherever he is going. These guards who are
mainly unemployed youth also man illegal checkpoints
on roads leading to his house in the Gyallesu quarters
of Zaria. In addition to open display of weapons,
these guards subject people living in the area, their
families and visitors to constant harassments. Even
after registering series of complaints to the police
and Zaria emirate, nothing has been done to come to
the rescue of these innocent Nigerians. Only last
week, there was a widely reported clash between
Shiite guards and residents of Gyallesu that claimed a
number of lives. Yet, there was no response from the
Government.

My advice for your Excellency is this. If your promise
to tackle insecurity is to be a reality you must cut
Shiites down to size. To do that effectively you have
to look around you and make sure that no member of
this group occupies an important position in your
Government. It would be a monumental scandal if
Nigerians come to realize that a member of such a
lawless group is very close to you and/or holding a key
position in your Government. This is regardless of the
intellectual prowess of the person. One would then
wonder what would be the reaction of your
Government when there is a clash between security
forces and members of this group. The millions of
Nigerians that voted for you do not include Shiites.
Nigerian Shiites do not vote unless they engage in
taqiyya which is a kind of hypocrisy allowed in their
religion whereby a person can pretend to be what he/
she is not and act accordingly in order to achieve a
goal. Secondly, no member of the public including
politicians, traditional or religious leaders must be
allowed to use his followers to harass the public. If
Mallam Ibrahim Elzakzaky or any other leader wants
additional security for himself he should be allowed to
employ trained private guards who would not harass
his neighbours. Finally, there should be no double
standard in dealing with different groups.

I wish I had a direct access to you to give you this
advice without making it public. Although I know a few
people around you, I am not quite sure that a
message sent through them would get to you at this
time. And since office-seeking Nigerians have been
sending in their CVs, any document dropped in your
office, no matter its contents is very likely going to
be treated as another CV in disguise.
I wish you Allah’s guidance.


Dr. Abdussamad Umar Jibia
Associate Professor and Head
Department of Mechatronics Engineering
Bayero University Kano

Oh leave the Shiites alone. Let them be

baboon dey sleep monkey dey go wake am. LET THE SLEEPING DOG LIE FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE!!!

una don chop shiite votes,no worry una go vomit.nonsense,abeg el rufai need to concur.

if they have been in Nigeria for over 30 years and are not known for jihadist tendencies like the sunni's extremist group boko haram, then why bother them. This prof is high on ganja.