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.
General Muhammadu Buhari
General Muhammadu Buhari
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.
*Mr. Oyewole, a political analyst, wrote
from Abuja.

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Maaan, that's messed up. I'm no more voting for Buhari.
Neither do I like Jonathan.
I don't know who else I'll vote for.

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nzeaji:
Maaan, that's messed up. I'm no more voting for Buhari.
Neither do I like Jonathan.
I don't know who else I'll vote for.

Makes two of us. But the Op ruined such excellent write up by making it extremely limited long that people will hate to read it because of the length.


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And some people are asking mazzi to vote this buhari?chineke ekwele biko!

Have you listened to PAstor Bosun's message on the plan to Islamize Nigeria? If not go listen to it.

Can a leopard change it's skin colour.