By Babatunde Oyewole

IN 2001 at an Islamic seminar in Kaduna, Buhari was given an
opportunity to choose between Nigeria’s secularism and
fundamentalist Islam, this is what he said; “I will continue to
show openly and inside me the total commitment to the
Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria”, he then
added that; “God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the
total implementation of the Sharia in the country”.Buhari an
advocate of sharia was chosen to address that seminar in
Kaduna because of his advocacy and he did not disappoint
because he is one of the boardroom voices of Sharia.
The boardroom advocates emboldened the weak minded and
impressionable youths and female suicide bombers. Those
who prepare such extremist point to such “moral exemplars”
that dying for Sharia is a worthy cause. It does not matter if
one is campaigning by selling democracy to unsuspecting
non-Muslims like a salesman selling snake-oil, they all have a
common goal but different modus operandi. The boardroom
voices, the elite prepare breeding ground for the field-soldiers,
they prepare the ideological diet upon which the adherents
feed.
Today many Nigerians are concerned that our society has
degenerated to a point where people wake up on a particular
day and go to public places like a market to kill their
neighbours with bombs. But these bombers did not just wake
up one day to take such a fatalistic decision. The suicide
bomber dies for a cause after a lengthy ideological and
psychological diet . A cause he or she has been made to
believe to be a worthy cause, It is immaterial that the suicide
bomber has chosen a course of action different from the other
advocates of the cause, but they have similar objectives, to
spread Sharia to every corner of Nigeria, and in that goal,
Boko Haram and other fundamentalists have many elite who
have created a breeding ground for their actions in Nigeria.
Other elite voice who have helped to ensure the social and
political mobilization against Nigeria’s secular status, and
who create a breeding ground for groups like Boko Haram
include, former governor Kure of Kaduna state who was also
in the same Kaduna seminar with Buhari. At the
aforementioned seminar, the then Governor Kure urged all
council members to ensure that the Nigerian constitution was
“upgraded” in all states to ensure that the basic objectives of
the Sharia legal code was achieved all over Nigeria. He gained
the support of other elite such as former minister of
Agriculture, Alhaji Sani Zango Daura, as well as emir of
Suleja, Alhaji Awwal Ibrahim, who refused to pay a
condolence visit to the Suleja church that was bombed by
Boko Haram on a Christmas day until political pressure was
put on him.
These boardroom voices of sharia have not concealed their
position. It is only other Nigerians who have tried to polish
their position to make it an acceptable perception for political
convenience, but the advocates for the spread of sharia to
every facet of Nigerian life have never disguise their goal. For
instance, a very notable advocate of Sharia, Senator Sani
Yerima, former governor of Zamfara state, robustly defended
his advocacy and had the support of several other elite with
similar conviction in the Senate when the status of women
was being debated. To make his sharia values clear, Yerima
who had earlier defended his marriage to a 13 year old in
contradiction of Section 21 of the Child Welfare Act told the
Senate that, when a woman is married at whatever age even
at 11years, she instantaneously reaches the full age of
adulthood. This is not very different from recent laws purveyed
by ISIL which justified enslavement of girls, including their
defilement if they are non-Muslim captives.
This is the type of ideological commitment that Buhari will
bring to the presidency if voted in. It is quite easy to state on
television and radio interviews that he is bound by Nigerian
laws as if its only when he occupies the office of the
presidency that he will be bound by the law of the land.
When he becomes head of state who will be there at those
quite moments when this values influence his decisions on
official matters? He has made his ideological position quite
clear when he stated in the Kaduna seminar that the spread of
Sharia is ‘’a legal responsibility which God has given us,
within the context of one Nigeria to continue to uphold the
practice of Sharia wholeheartedly and to educate non-
Muslims, what remains for muslims in Nigeria is for them to
redouble their efforts,educate muslims on the need to promote
the full implementation of sharia law”Buhari has made his
advocacy for sharia clear, those who wish to vote him to
power can either accept it or pretend that it does not matter,
just as those who said naively that Yerima was harmless later
expresed shock when he eventually stopped the Senate from
reviewing our laws on the legal age of a woman and we are
today stuck with his sharia version.
As Boko Haram has demonstrated viciousness, so shall we
will come to find that Buhari, a promoter and advocate of
Sharia as president of the federal government of Nigeria
would direct the thinking of his adherents and their attitude to
governance. This would spell doom for all non muslims in
Nigeria that Gen.Buhari said should be educated to accept
and embrace sharia now being enforced by Boko Haram
through violence and killings.




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