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Isa Aliyu Pantami, President Muhammadu Buhari’s communications minister, once declared that he was always a happy man towards the massacre of those he considered infidels.

“We are all happy whenever unbelievers are being killed,” Mr Pantami said. “But the Sharia does not allow us to kill them without a reason.”

“Our zeal (hamasa) should not take precedence over our obedience to the sacred law,” he added.
Mr Pantami’s comments were contained in three audio recordings of his teachings in the 2000s, when he took extreme positions in support of the brutal exploits of Al Qaeda and Taliban elements who were on a campaign to obliterate the West and conquer other parts of the world.

He made the remarks while responding to audience questions about his views on Osama Bin Laden during a lecture about the Taliban. Mr Pantami said of Mr Bin Laden, the late Al Qaeda leader responsible for bringing down the World Trade Centre in an attack that claimed over 3,000 lives in 2001: “I still consider him as a better Muslim than myself.”

Mr Pantami’s comments were translated by Professor Andrea Brigaglia, an African expert at Naples University in Italy. Nigerian scholar Musa Ibrahim of University of Florida in the United States contributed to the paper that explored the onset of Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Top journal publisher academia.edu published the research in March 2019, several months before Mr Buhari tapped Mr Pantami as a minister. Mr Pantami’s violent preachings, which he rendered in Hausa and Arabic throughout the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s, had gone largely unreported in the Nigerian mainstream media.
Mr Pantami did not return a request seeking comments from Peoples Gazette about whether or not he has eschewed his violent Salafist views.

How many people have been radicalised by Mr Pantami remained unclear. Messrs Brigaglia and Ibahim said Mr Pantami’s views were rare amongst Islamic preachers across Africa at the time they were made, even though they were common amongst Nigerian Muslims at the time.
“It was ordinary for Nigeria’s mainstream Salafis to endorse Al-Qaeda publicly in their speeches and lectures,” the scholars said. “In this respect, Nigeria was probably a unique case in the Muslim world.”

Mr Pantami, 48, was widely known as a hate preacher across universities and other public institutions in northern parts of Nigeria before Mr Buhari brought him into mainstream Nigerian politics by appointing him as the head of the public information technology department NITDA in 2016.

Mr Buhari further elevated Mr Pantami following his reelection as president in 2019, tapping him to lead the communications and digital economy ministry of the federal government. Mr Pantami has been accused of using his position to further his agenda as a fundamentalist.

His decision to shut down the registration of new telephone lines in Nigeria has been perhaps his most controversial policy pronouncement to date.

The move has blocked millions of Nigerians from being able to register new lines on the purported grounds that everyone has to obtain a government-issued national identity number.
Mr Pantami’s vicious comments surfaced following reports that he was placed travel restrictions by the United States for purported ties to Boko Haram.

The minister quickly moved to debunk the salacious and grossly uncorroborated claim first published by Daily Independent, a Lagos-based daily.

While debunking the report, however, Mr Pantami took to Twitter to claim he has always preached against Boko Haram. He also retweeted several handles that described him as a peaceful Islamic scholar, an attempt at image laundering that has now been punctured by Italian and African scholars.

“It is unbelievable that President Buhari will appoint a man like Isa Pantami to be a minister in a secular country like Nigeria,” political analyst Mohammed Tukura told The Gazette. “A president that believes in national cohesion will not appoint a fundamentalist who shares the same views as leaders of Boko Haram and Taliban.”

Mr Tukura said Mr Pantami’s nomination should have been rejected on the basis of his appearance in the WikiLeaks file in which he said to have been dismissed from Ahmadu Bello University for constantly espousing dangerous views.
“We saw on the Internet that the U.S. government accused him of making dangerous comments for which he was expelled from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University,” Mr Tukura said. “His appointment as a minister has now further exposed Buhari’s sectional and divisive way of life.”

Source: https://gazettengr.com/we-are-all-happy-whenever-unbelievers-are-being-killed-minister-pantami/?utm_source=ReviveOldPost&utm_medium=social&utm_c

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Multiplier7:
They left Nigeria, they left South Africa and they left Egypt only to establish their presence in that locality. Well, time will tell. They better be getting ready to park out too because in all indices, Ghana cannot give them what the above countries can give them. That's the simple truth.

They always come crawling back to the big boys. Time will tell.

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Don't celebrate yet, the debt level is crazy.
I hope all this can pay back the huge loans.

Hakeem12:
Decent phone, just a bit overpriced

Fair price but useless naira and poverty .

tempest01:
Instead of these people to fight corruption and reduce cost of governance, they are ready to run the country to the ground and create problems for the future.


The next administration should be prepared to round up these people and chase and recover their assets home and abroad to fund future expenses.

My brother forget corruption, poverty has pushed many to do desperate things.

Buhari and his friends have stolen everything.

NNPC refinery have been making losses in trillions. Northerners are using the Abacha theory.

except a corona stops him from traveling.

No need to issue any statement. He should take a bike there or walk in to greet them.


Yeyecious.

Akudaisi:
Now that's one hell of a stupid analysis

Intelligence agencies know this.

It still doesnt justify the attacks.

Now given the quick unpleasant changes taking place in the East one must think deep and critically analyze the situation.


Style of attack
This is the same style of attack used by Boko haram at their commencement stage. Attack police stations, free suspects, attack prison facilities, it should have been banks before prisons- this tells us they don't need the money, they are well financed.

2023 Matters.
Any politically enlightened Nigerian knows that regions often use violence to make a desperate case for Presidential slot since Abiola's violent death gave South West the Obj presidency, Militants made a case for the GEJ era, PMB rode on Boko Haram to the villa.
The presidency has many times attested that South west violence is a 2023 language.
But the South East case is different.
1. The gunmen are faceless. as IPOB & ESN have denied responsibility.
2. The APC is weak in the region, they already have a secession voice, politicians there kmow they can not clinch the presidential ticket, mot even with violence.

Submission
Given the above, it is safe to SUGGEST the following, that;
1. The unkmown gunmen are paid infiltrators, sent to politically demarket the South east.
2. The violence is about 2023.
3. The real actors of this script played the movies in Borno and the famous Chibok mystery.
4. The actors of this script are most certainly from regions contending for the APC ticket.
5. The violence is 100% political.

Therefore, President Buhari acted wise again in bringing in a new IG to investigate these huge conspiracy that is fast becoming a new Borno in the East.

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So that you can keep getting free oil money.

You cannot fool all the people all the time.

Extending his tenure was unwise and a complete afront on all, leadership is by consent.

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We must vomit this one.

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Post more pics and where is the location?

2023 is the new hussle.

We all know that Wicked Wike will still flog them in 2023 elections.

States should stop equiping federal forces, create your own Amotekun buy them Helicopters, body cameras etc. Federal forces will divert it to use in other parasitic states.

2023 politics is the real hussle.

Very few, very few Nigerians have a working brain.

What OP and guys just observed Nigerian politicians will never see need for it in 50yrs.

To this infidel goat everything is either PDP or APC, you need new brain packs.


Insecurity has thrived because of this yeyecious mentality, PMB doing sacred cow policing.

Comments like this shows the height of mental and moral bankrupcy among Nigerian youths.


Its not a PDP or APC thing it raises question on integrity.

Shabaleen:
Then why yorubas hates Igbos so much??

Likes repell.


Them be one flesh.

All we see are Northerners and Yoruba's conspiring against the people of Middle belt, Niger Deltans and Igbos.


Its a huge conspiracy.

Keep up the folly even Kano can't catch up in 30 years. Delta with multiple cities, high FDI, trained and educated youth, home of Nollywood in 60yrs Borno won't smell it.


So you will rather be a governor in Borno than Delta, guy go take your pills.

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