The crime of the Nigerian state is allowing Pantami to rise to the level he has risen in Nigerian state affairs.

Pantami’s religious views are not different from that of Sheikh Gumi, the man who has turned himself into the religious avatar whose chosen path is that of going inside the forest to mediate and negotiate between bandits and the Nigerian state.

Gumi too has sought to canonize bandits and even insurgents by saying that Nigeria misunderstood them. He is free to trade such irresponsible views too. The problem will arise the day Gumi seeks to handle one of the instruments of administration of a secular Nigerian state

That is why Pantami should not be blamed.

The blame should fall squarely by the feet of President Muhammadu Buhari, his appointor, and the Nigerian state whose feeble binoculars could not pinpoint and pin those damaging and dangerous views ascribed to the Minister.

Why I do not blame Buhari himself but the Nigerian electors who, in spite of them, voted him into office as president, is that, there seems not to be too much difference between the views held by Pantami and even Buhari himself before the latter became president.

We were not too young to read and watch on television Buhari fuming and saying that if he was rigged out of the presidential election, the dogs and the baboons would be soaked in blood. That was an insurgent philosophy. This same man upbraided the Goodluck Jonathan government for attacking Boko Haram insurgents and said that every shelling of the insurgents was an attack against the north.

The truth is that, many northern elders unfortunately share huge slices of opinions that are similar to Pantami and Buharis’. It is why insurgency is festering in the land like ferns in a plantation. In a saner clime, Pantami would have resigned if he still retains any modicum of honour left in him. But, this is Nigeria; he won’t resign. Has President Buhari himself resigned??

DSS
SSS
NIA
DMI
NPF
NA
NAFSF
NNSBS


These are some of the soured beans intelligence agency we have that allowed a Jihadi become minister.


Who knows the varied degrees of defective and women who have been elected into sensitive positions in this foolish country called Nigeria.


That the DSS can snoop on runs girls and yahoo boys liberally, but cannot make a spot check on someone as dangerously brainwashed as Panta-haram - shows that we are sitting on a big bowl of shit (Intelligence wise)


As in our NIA is so useless that even my local Boys Brigade company will rival them.

3 groups failed in all this, Presidency that nominated him , DSS that failed to scrutinize him, and Senate that failed to question him before confirming him

Jerryherd:
3 groups failed in all this, Presidency that nominated him , DSS that failed to scrutinize him, and Senate that failed to question him before confirming him

The DSS boss is a known bokoharam sympathizer