Buhari’s Inauguration Day ‘Sharia Law Bag’ And OIC Islamization Agenda In Nigeria [MUST READ]
Francis Anekwe Oborji | Op-Ed Contribtor.


A handout image released by the Nigerian Presidential Press Services on May 29, 2019 shows Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari being sworn in during his inauguration ceremony in Abuja, Nigeria. | Sunday Aghaeze/State House Photo
By now, Nigerians might have realized that President Buhari did not use the Holy Quran or Holy Bible as is the custom and norms, when he took oath-of-office for his second-term on May 29, 2019 at Abuja. Being a Muslim, Nigerians expected the President to use a copy of the Holy Quran for the oath-of-office, but this did not happen.


Indeed, many people, especially Christians, moderate Muslims and non-Muslims alike were disappointed to see President Buhari, carry a “Sharia law bag” for his oath of office at Abuja on May 29, 2019, in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural country like Nigeria. Government officials thought that ordinary people would not find out, so they hid the Sharia law book in its bag Buhari used for the oath of office that day.


In a normal clime, where things are normally well done and the norms properly followed, the Holy Book (be it the Bible, Quran or even the nation’s Constitution), whichever one is used for the swearing-in ceremony, is not hidden in any bag at all. Rather, it is placed on a well-prepared lectern at the view of everybody on the arena and the candidate himself places his hands on the Holy Book as he takes the oath of office.

This is what it means when people say you take oath of office by placing your hands on the Bible or on the Quran, depending on one’s religion. It could also be by placing your hands on the text of the nation’s Constitution. None of these happened at Abuja on May 29, 2019.


In some countries like the United States of America, the wife of the President may hold the Bible for the husband who places his hands on it as he takes the oath of office. Moreover, in the US, copies of the Holy Book used by past Presidents at their swearing-in ceremonies are all kept at the White House in archives. Often a new President would ask for a copy of the Bible used by a particular past President of his choice for his own swearing-in ceremony.





A question naturally suggests itself here. Who provided Buhari with that Sharia law bag, instead of a copy of the Holy Quran for his oath of office on May 29, 2019 at Abuja? In a normal circumstance, to prevent a breach of the established norms and tradition such as this, it is the duty of the government to provide copies of the sacred Books for the swearing-in ceremonies.


I hope that many of us might have noticed that Muhammed Tanko, the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, goes about in most of his official duties, carrying his Sharia law bag, the type that Buhari used that day of his inauguration. Tanko was a former Sharia Court Chief Judge before Buhari appointed him to his present post after the controversial and unconstitutional removable of Justice Onneghen (a Christian) as Chief Justice of Nigeria in the build-up to the 2019 elections. Who knows, perhaps, it was at the instance of Chief Justice Tanko that Buhari carried a Sharia law bag at his swearing-in ceremony that day?

According to experts in Islamic and Arabic studies, Sharia law or Sharia Islamic law is a religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam, particularly the Quran and the Hadith. Again, that Buhari took an oath of office carrying a Sharia law bag is the first time such a thing is happening in Nigeria political history.

OIC Islamization Agenda in Nigeria Is Real
The symbolic meaning of President Buhari carrying a Sharia law bag in taking oath of office is in conformity to the decision reached at a Joint Conference of major Islamic organizations that took place at Abuja, Nigeria on November 28, 1989. At the Abuja Islamic Joint conference, the OIC and its allied organizations confirmed Nigeria as an Islamic country and asked the Federal government to do something urgently to show the whole world that Nigeria is truly an Islamic nation.

This is the symbolic significance of what Buhari did at his Inauguration Day on May 29, 2019, by carrying a Sharia law bag in taking oath of office.

Again, on 28 November 1989, there was an important Joint conference of all allied major Islamic organizations, which took place at Abuja, Nigeria. The Abuja Joint Conference issued a landmark Communique, in which they sealed the fate of Nigeria for the Muslim world (forever).


Among the member Islamic Organizations present at the Abuja Joint conference were the following:
The Islamic Council, London.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

In fact, to appreciate Buhari’s gesture and symbolism of the Sharia law bag he was carrying at his Inauguration Day, it suffices to refer the reader to the following two paragraphs from the Final Communique of the 1989 Abuja Joint conference. In their Communique, the Abuja Joint conference, among other things, issued the following statements:
“The permanent headquarters of the Islam in Africa Organization (IAO) shall be in Abuja, Nigeria. The steering committee has been assigned the special task of the details establishing the IAO in Nigeria, including structures and the constitution within six (6) months. The conference decided that the steering committee should also work out detailed plans for transforming a national political party in each member nation into a National Islamic Party, and that the National Republican Convention (NRC) of Nigeria should be made to serve this purpose in Nigeria as the only recognized National Islamic Party of Nigeria.

These political parties so approved shall be the only ones to produce the leading (executive and legislative) functionaries. The NRC of Nigeria and other parties shall have their names changed to reflect the Islamic nature of their purpose.”
Continuing, the Communique says:
“The conference further agreed and decided that the IAO should, for the time being, operate from the facilities of the Islamic Council, London, not from that of the OIC (that has become too controversial in Nigeria). The Joint conference finally rectified the admission of Nigeria as a full member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and thanked the Government and people of Nigeria for having generously donated US$21 billion to the Islamic Development Fund of the OIC, and sincerely requested the Federal government of Nigeria to implement all policies and programs of the OIC to show the whole world that Nigeria is truly an Islamic nation.” (NB: For full text of the 1989 Abuja Islamic Joint Conference Communique, see the official website of Islamic Council, London).

These groups recruited Buhari, the Miyetti Allah, and the Cabal for the actualization of their Islamic project in Nigeria.


Unfortunately, they have the blessings of their Western partners because of our Oil and other mineral and natural resources.
This is precisely, why President Buhari left the Eagle Square on that fateful day of May 29, 2019 without delivering the traditional inaugural speech of a newly sworn-in President. He had to jet out of the country immediately to Saudi Arabia to attend the meeting of the OIC. This tells us where the heart and mind of this man is. Certainly, the aspirations of all Nigerians, especially Christians, moderate Muslims (including many Nigerian Fulanis who don’t agree with their evil agenda), and all other non-Fulani Ethnic-nationalities, are very marginal for the man and his administration.

He sacrificed also inclusive leadership, balanced political appointments as enshrined in the constitution, to pursue a primitive Islamic fundamentalist agenda in a multi-religious and multi-ethnic nation state such as Nigeria. That is why from day one of this administration, the President chose to work only with people of his ethnic clan and religious configuration, in a total disregard to the federal character principles in government appointments as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution.


To be fair to Buhari, however, Nigeria’s romance with OIC has long history. What Buhari did on May 29, 2019, was to make a spectacle of it, position and advertise Abuja Federal Capital Territory as the new headquarters of Islam in Africa.


General Yakubu Gowon was the first Head of State to take Nigeria to OIC during the Nigeria-Biafra War. This was one of the reasons General Emeka Ojukwu alerted the world that the Nigeria-Biafra War was a religious one. That one of the primary objectives of the federal government for the war was to execute the extermination of the predominantly Christian Igbos in South Eastern Nigeria.

With the 1999 Constitution, the foundation for today’s phase of Islamization of Nigeria was laid. Almost every page of the 1999 Constitution is dotted with Sharia or Islamic words and legal terms. There is no mention of any Christian word in the whole of the 1999 Constitution. The 1999 Constitution was skewed in such a way that it could favor only Islam. The Constitution ushered-in the gradual enthronement of Sharia legal system and Muslim dominance in Nigeria’s political system and structure of governance at all levels in a manner never witnessed before in the history of the country.

The 1999 Constitution opened the floodgate for the enthronement and adoption of Sharia Islamic law system in all the twelve states in Northern Nigeria during the Obasanjo regime; a situation Buhari administration is doing everything possible today to extend to the rest of the country. This is why, many concerned individuals have been calling for a convocation of a new Constitution Drafting Constituent Assembly that will correct the abnormalities of the 1999 Constitution. A new Constitution that will introduce true federalism, a return to a modified form of the type of regional system of government we inherited at independence in 1960.

Furthermore, General Olusegun Obasanjo complicated the matter when he assumed office as civilian President in 1999. Obasanjo went to Saudi Arab and rectified Nigeria’s membership of OIC. In other words, a Christian head of state (General Gowon), registered Nigeria as an OIC Observer member. Thereafter, another supposedly Christian civilian President (General Obasanjo) rectified Nigeria’s full membership of the Islamic organization (OIC). Wonders never end!

Even today, a good number of our highly placed Christians and political leaders who have decided to remain naïve and docile, are busy helping the present administration of Buhari in advancing the cause of Islamization and Fulanization in Nigeria. What a shame!


Buhari’s “next-level” was launched at his inauguration day on May 29, 2019, when he carried a Sharia law bag in taking oath of office. He had immediately, after that, to travel to Saudi Arabia to attend OIC meeting in order to confirm the take-off of the “next-level” of his administration to his sponsors. Thus, it is high time Nigerians begin to understand the meaning of Buhari’s “next level.”


That expression (“next-level”) of Buhari has nothing to do with improving the lots of Nigerians. Because improving the lots of the suffering poor masses of Nigeria has no place at all in this administration’s agenda. The sole aim of the present administration, as Obasanjo and T.Y. Danjuma had lately alerted the nation, is Islamization and Fulanization of the whole Nigeria. Period! After all, who has more insight or better informed of Nigeria’s myriad of problems than Obasanjo and Danjuma themselves?
Thus, the “next-level” this administration is talking about means one thing: It is their ongoing efforts to convert all the political, religious and cultural governance structures and styles of life in Nigeria into Islamic and Arabic. This is the reason why the New School Curriculum recently approved by the Ministry of Education had to suppress Christian religious studies in a bid to impose Islamic and Arabic studies on all Nigerian children in schools.


It is the same story in the financial sector. Nigerian economy is configured already to the whims and caprices of OIC inspired Development Banks. In other words, the Mujahedeen Fulani Northern Muslims have taken over the full control of Nigeria’s center of power and structures of governance. This is the ugly situation the country has found itself today under Buhari administration.
Wider Implications for Nigeria as a “Secular State”

By using a sharia law bag for his swearing-in ceremony on May 29, 2019, President Buhari at the back of his mind, was enthroning Islamic government and Sharia law system on the whole of Nigeria. What happened that day, on May 29, 2019 was symbolic for the Muslim world. The OIC Arab Islamic countries had slated their Plenary Assembly to coincide exactly with that day of Nigeria’s inauguration of the newly reelected President Buhari. It was not by accident at all. They were at Saudi Arabia waiting for Buhari to finish the job, come, and report back to them officially.

This is why those people who are castigating and abusing Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for the way he was disgraced at the arena of Presidential inauguration that day should stop it. The man did not breach any protocol at all. Because his name was on the official list of dignitaries invited from the word go to be at that position. He was invited and positioned there by competent authorities.

But what happened that morning was that as the inauguration ceremony and military salute was about to begin, Oshiomhole was spotted out by the Cabal as the most visibly non-Fulani and the only Christian standing among the Fulani Muslim ruling Oligarchy high ranking dignitaries, waiting to take salute and have handshake with the President. He was like a “Gentile” to them. They had to order him out immediately.

This was the major reason Oshiomhole was ordered out in disgrace. I can assure you that if his deputy Chairman of APC, a Fulani Muslim, or Governor El Rufai of Kaduna State, was the person standing in that place, nobody would have dared ordering him out. The fact is that Oshiomhole standing with them and wearing his habitual Western and Christian comrade attire, that enough was a wrong signal to the Cabal and the Muslim world. For them, it meant that the battle is not yet over. So, Oshiomhole became their victim that morning.

In civilized world, the National Chairman of the ruling Party as well as his counterpart from the main opposition Party, take dignified positions of that grade on inauguration days. This is because, as the National Chairman of the ruling party, Oshiomhole has an enormous responsibility in determining the direction of the political administration of the country. This is why National Party Chairmen enjoy some privileges and are highly respected.


In fact, in normal circumstances, the National Chairman of the ruling Party, is supposed to keep an eye on the President and his ministers as well as on members of the party in the National Assembly. This is because he has to make sure that the Party’s electioneering Manifestos, are strictly, adhered to by the executive and legislative arms of government.


If Nigeria is a functioning country really, following what happened that day of inauguration, the National Assembly is supposed to have by now, summoned the Police Chief and Chief of Protocol for interrogations for the embarrassment Oshiomhole suffered that day. The fact is that Oshiomhole was disgraced at the inauguration arena because of his Christian religion and ethnicity. This is the naked truth, many may not like to discuss.


Furthermore, with that symbolic act, the President and his handlers are telling the world that Nigeria as a whole, has finally, been won over for Islam. That sooner, or later, Christians would come to know their new status as “protected” second-class citizens ( dhimmi ) in an Islamic nation, Nigeria; that is, like their counterparts in modern Egypt (Copt Orthodox Christians) or in Turkey.

The churches could no longer hold their faithful against the stimulating effects of the “new” and vigorous” Islam. The Coptic Church survived in Egypt as a minority ( dhimmi ), for which it had to pay tax.


Lets hope and pray that God will never allow Christians and indigenous populations of Nigeria to experience such a thing like what happened to the first centuries’ churches and Christians of North Africa. Neither would we like to have in Nigeria the recent experience of Christians in Lebanon at the hands of their Arab Muslim Palestinian immigrants, whom they had welcomed in their country some years back as refugees.


Conclusion
The picture of a Nigerian President carrying a “Sharia law bag” in taking oath of office is very disturbing. It portends a grave danger for the future of Christianity in Nigeria as well as for the continued existence of our dear country as one indivisible African nation state.

For many knowledgeable Nigerians, by choosing to carry a Sharia law bag and wear it like a turban in taking oath of office on May 29, 2019 at Abuja, Buhari has drawn a battle line between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria. He has as well declared a kind of “cold-war” between his Mujahedeen Fulani Muslims ethnic-group and Non-Fulani ethnic-nationalities and indigenous populations of Nigeria. Will he be able to accomplish the devilish ambition? Certainly no!

Likewise, nobody will ever succeed in his or her evil design to impose Islamic religion and Fulani culture on non-Fulani Ethnic nationalities of the country.

The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.

https://www.thetrentonline.com/buharis-inauguration-day-sharia-law-bag-and-oic-islamization-agenda-in-nigeria-must-read/amp/

It is happening and some people are not believing it.

A very good write up I must say.

A very good write up.

Henry1006:
It is happening and some people are not believing it.

My brothers, this is no more an issue of you're Yoruba , I'm niger delta or he is an Igbo.


The new ISLAMIC order is before us and BUHARI will arrest more Christians and people of southern Nigeria who may be a stumbling block to his agenda of islamization.

I pity pity people or the regions that are not prepared to face these terrorists

Agrogbeide:
A very good write up.

Indeed a serious eye opener

Yammree brain disorder has affected this one so bad, hallucinations, wild imaginations and nightmares taunt them because of bitterness and hate, politically, socially, economically and religiously.

Continually they wail, they see no good thing, they see no good relationships they duel on the side of hate, bitterness and haughtiness.

Bad vibes, these yammree people.

tunjiajayi:
Yammree brain disorder has affected this one so bad, hallucinations, wild imaginations and nightmares taunt them because of bitterness and hate, politically, socially, economically and religiously.

Continually they wail, they see no good thing, they see no good relationships they duel on the side of hate, bitterness and haughtiness.

Bad vibes, these yammree people.

What is expected from terrorists who are behind the recent happenings in the country is exactly what you are doing.

calling Igbos names won't change anything.

It's already happening on yoloba soil live.

Igbos are ready for them but some people from the wasted land of SKULL miners shall fall.

Observing from my High Places.... !

I did my best in 2014 and 2018 to warn you all that Buhari was/is a BADNEWS.

tunjiajayi:
Yammree brain disorder has affected this one so bad, hallucinations, wild imaginations and nightmares taunt them because of bitterness and hate, politically, socially, economically and religiously.

Continually they wail, they see no good thing, they see no good relationships they duel on the side of hate, bitterness and haughtiness.

Bad vibes, these yammree people.

Yoruba Muslims....
Why fight hard to defend those that slaughter you..and your people ..
...and still don't even recognize you as Muslim..

Lincoln abolish slavery centuries ago...what's still wrong with you..
...
When the herdsmen get to your place ..and about to slaughter..kindly remind them..you're a Muslim and have defended them all your life..
MAybe that will save your head..

Keep playing with fire...

bounty007:



Yoruba Muslims....
Why fight hard to defend those that slaughter you..and your people ..
...and still don't even recognize you as Muslim..

Lincoln abolish slavery centuries ago...what's still wrong with you..
...
When the herdsmen get to your place ..and about to slaughter..kindly remind them..you're a Muslim and have defended them all your life..
MAybe that will save your head..

Keep playing with fire...

Thank you for asking them

I did not even read the long story despite being a reader.

I just wan ask.

Who doesn't know that Buhari is a fanatical Pro-Sharia Bigot?

All Pmb did and will do for the Enthronof Islamization in Nigeria is CANCELLED IN JESUS NAME....

All the Strategies and tactics used is Cancelled and Destroyed in JESUS NAME..

Pmb and his entourage or any group within and outside Nigeria are Raw Materials through Which the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST will Rile and Be preached in Nigeria in JESUS NAME...

I Cancel all Enchantments, Divinations, telepathy,and Sacrifices Made Against Christianity in Nigeria in JESUS NAME...

GOD ALMIGHTY REGINS IN NIGERIA FOREVER!

cybersoldiers:
Buhari’s Inauguration Day ‘Sharia Law Bag’ And OIC Islamization Agenda In Nigeria [MUST READ]
Francis Anekwe Oborji | Op-Ed Contribtor.


A handout image released by the Nigerian Presidential Press Services on May 29, 2019 shows Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari being sworn in during his inauguration ceremony in Abuja, Nigeria. | Sunday Aghaeze/State House Photo
By now, Nigerians might have realized that President Buhari did not use the Holy Quran or Holy Bible as is the custom and norms, when he took oath-of-office for his second-term on May 29, 2019 at Abuja. Being a Muslim, Nigerians expected the President to use a copy of the Holy Quran for the oath-of-office, but this did not happen.


Indeed, many people, especially Christians, moderate Muslims and non-Muslims alike were disappointed to see President Buhari, carry a “Sharia law bag” for his oath of office at Abuja on May 29, 2019, in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural country like Nigeria. Government officials thought that ordinary people would not find out, so they hid the Sharia law book in its bag Buhari used for the oath of office that day.


In a normal clime, where things are normally well done and the norms properly followed, the Holy Book (be it the Bible, Quran or even the nation’s Constitution), whichever one is used for the swearing-in ceremony, is not hidden in any bag at all. Rather, it is placed on a well-prepared lectern at the view of everybody on the arena and the candidate himself places his hands on the Holy Book as he takes the oath of office.

This is what it means when people say you take oath of office by placing your hands on the Bible or on the Quran, depending on one’s religion. It could also be by placing your hands on the text of the nation’s Constitution. None of these happened at Abuja on May 29, 2019.


In some countries like the United States of America, the wife of the President may hold the Bible for the husband who places his hands on it as he takes the oath of office. Moreover, in the US, copies of the Holy Book used by past Presidents at their swearing-in ceremonies are all kept at the White House in archives. Often a new President would ask for a copy of the Bible used by a particular past President of his choice for his own swearing-in ceremony.





A question naturally suggests itself here. Who provided Buhari with that Sharia law bag, instead of a copy of the Holy Quran for his oath of office on May 29, 2019 at Abuja? In a normal circumstance, to prevent a breach of the established norms and tradition such as this, it is the duty of the government to provide copies of the sacred Books for the swearing-in ceremonies.


I hope that many of us might have noticed that Muhammed Tanko, the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, goes about in most of his official duties, carrying his Sharia law bag, the type that Buhari used that day of his inauguration. Tanko was a former Sharia Court Chief Judge before Buhari appointed him to his present post after the controversial and unconstitutional removable of Justice Onneghen (a Christian) as Chief Justice of Nigeria in the build-up to the 2019 elections. Who knows, perhaps, it was at the instance of Chief Justice Tanko that Buhari carried a Sharia law bag at his swearing-in ceremony that day?

According to experts in Islamic and Arabic studies, Sharia law or Sharia Islamic law is a religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam, particularly the Quran and the Hadith. Again, that Buhari took an oath of office carrying a Sharia law bag is the first time such a thing is happening in Nigeria political history.

OIC Islamization Agenda in Nigeria Is Real
The symbolic meaning of President Buhari carrying a Sharia law bag in taking oath of office is in conformity to the decision reached at a Joint Conference of major Islamic organizations that took place at Abuja, Nigeria on November 28, 1989. At the Abuja Islamic Joint conference, the OIC and its allied organizations confirmed Nigeria as an Islamic country and asked the Federal government to do something urgently to show the whole world that Nigeria is truly an Islamic nation.

This is the symbolic significance of what Buhari did at his Inauguration Day on May 29, 2019, by carrying a Sharia law bag in taking oath of office.

Again, on 28 November 1989, there was an important Joint conference of all allied major Islamic organizations, which took place at Abuja, Nigeria. The Abuja Joint Conference issued a landmark Communique, in which they sealed the fate of Nigeria for the Muslim world (forever).


Among the member Islamic Organizations present at the Abuja Joint conference were the following:
The Islamic Council, London.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

In fact, to appreciate Buhari’s gesture and symbolism of the Sharia law bag he was carrying at his Inauguration Day, it suffices to refer the reader to the following two paragraphs from the Final Communique of the 1989 Abuja Joint conference. In their Communique, the Abuja Joint conference, among other things, issued the following statements:
“The permanent headquarters of the Islam in Africa Organization (IAO) shall be in Abuja, Nigeria. The steering committee has been assigned the special task of the details establishing the IAO in Nigeria, including structures and the constitution within six (6) months. The conference decided that the steering committee should also work out detailed plans for transforming a national political party in each member nation into a National Islamic Party, and that the National Republican Convention (NRC) of Nigeria should be made to serve this purpose in Nigeria as the only recognized National Islamic Party of Nigeria.

These political parties so approved shall be the only ones to produce the leading (executive and legislative) functionaries. The NRC of Nigeria and other parties shall have their names changed to reflect the Islamic nature of their purpose.”
Continuing, the Communique says:
“The conference further agreed and decided that the IAO should, for the time being, operate from the facilities of the Islamic Council, London, not from that of the OIC (that has become too controversial in Nigeria). The Joint conference finally rectified the admission of Nigeria as a full member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and thanked the Government and people of Nigeria for having generously donated US$21 billion to the Islamic Development Fund of the OIC, and sincerely requested the Federal government of Nigeria to implement all policies and programs of the OIC to show the whole world that Nigeria is truly an Islamic nation.” (NB: For full text of the 1989 Abuja Islamic Joint Conference Communique, see the official website of Islamic Council, London).

These groups recruited Buhari, the Miyetti Allah, and the Cabal for the actualization of their Islamic project in Nigeria.


Unfortunately, they have the blessings of their Western partners because of our Oil and other mineral and natural resources.
This is precisely, why President Buhari left the Eagle Square on that fateful day of May 29, 2019 without delivering the traditional inaugural speech of a newly sworn-in President. He had to jet out of the country immediately to Saudi Arabia to attend the meeting of the OIC. This tells us where the heart and mind of this man is. Certainly, the aspirations of all Nigerians, especially Christians, moderate Muslims (including many Nigerian Fulanis who don’t agree with their evil agenda), and all other non-Fulani Ethnic-nationalities, are very marginal for the man and his administration.

He sacrificed also inclusive leadership, balanced political appointments as enshrined in the constitution, to pursue a primitive Islamic fundamentalist agenda in a multi-religious and multi-ethnic nation state such as Nigeria. That is why from day one of this administration, the President chose to work only with people of his ethnic clan and religious configuration, in a total disregard to the federal character principles in government appointments as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution.


To be fair to Buhari, however, Nigeria’s romance with OIC has long history. What Buhari did on May 29, 2019, was to make a spectacle of it, position and advertise Abuja Federal Capital Territory as the new headquarters of Islam in Africa.


General Yakubu Gowon was the first Head of State to take Nigeria to OIC during the Nigeria-Biafra War. This was one of the reasons General Emeka Ojukwu alerted the world that the Nigeria-Biafra War was a religious one. That one of the primary objectives of the federal government for the war was to execute the extermination of the predominantly Christian Igbos in South Eastern Nigeria.

With the 1999 Constitution, the foundation for today’s phase of Islamization of Nigeria was laid. Almost every page of the 1999 Constitution is dotted with Sharia or Islamic words and legal terms. There is no mention of any Christian word in the whole of the 1999 Constitution. The 1999 Constitution was skewed in such a way that it could favor only Islam. The Constitution ushered-in the gradual enthronement of Sharia legal system and Muslim dominance in Nigeria’s political system and structure of governance at all levels in a manner never witnessed before in the history of the country.

The 1999 Constitution opened the floodgate for the enthronement and adoption of Sharia Islamic law system in all the twelve states in Northern Nigeria during the Obasanjo regime; a situation Buhari administration is doing everything possible today to extend to the rest of the country. This is why, many concerned individuals have been calling for a convocation of a new Constitution Drafting Constituent Assembly that will correct the abnormalities of the 1999 Constitution. A new Constitution that will introduce true federalism, a return to a modified form of the type of regional system of government we inherited at independence in 1960.

Furthermore, General Olusegun Obasanjo complicated the matter when he assumed office as civilian President in 1999. Obasanjo went to Saudi Arab and rectified Nigeria’s membership of OIC. In other words, a Christian head of state (General Gowon), registered Nigeria as an OIC Observer member. Thereafter, another supposedly Christian civilian President (General Obasanjo) rectified Nigeria’s full membership of the Islamic organization (OIC). Wonders never end!

Even today, a good number of our highly placed Christians and political leaders who have decided to remain naïve and docile, are busy helping the present administration of Buhari in advancing the cause of Islamization and Fulanization in Nigeria. What a shame!


Buhari’s “next-level” was launched at his inauguration day on May 29, 2019, when he carried a Sharia law bag in taking oath of office. He had immediately, after that, to travel to Saudi Arabia to attend OIC meeting in order to confirm the take-off of the “next-level” of his administration to his sponsors. Thus, it is high time Nigerians begin to understand the meaning of Buhari’s “next level.”


That expression (“next-level”) of Buhari has nothing to do with improving the lots of Nigerians. Because improving the lots of the suffering poor masses of Nigeria has no place at all in this administration’s agenda. The sole aim of the present administration, as Obasanjo and T.Y. Danjuma had lately alerted the nation, is Islamization and Fulanization of the whole Nigeria. Period! After all, who has more insight or better informed of Nigeria’s myriad of problems than Obasanjo and Danjuma themselves?
Thus, the “next-level” this administration is talking about means one thing: It is their ongoing efforts to convert all the political, religious and cultural governance structures and styles of life in Nigeria into Islamic and Arabic. This is the reason why the New School Curriculum recently approved by the Ministry of Education had to suppress Christian religious studies in a bid to impose Islamic and Arabic studies on all Nigerian children in schools.


It is the same story in the financial sector. Nigerian economy is configured already to the whims and caprices of OIC inspired Development Banks. In other words, the Mujahedeen Fulani Northern Muslims have taken over the full control of Nigeria’s center of power and structures of governance. This is the ugly situation the country has found itself today under Buhari administration.
Wider Implications for Nigeria as a “Secular State”

By using a sharia law bag for his swearing-in ceremony on May 29, 2019, President Buhari at the back of his mind, was enthroning Islamic government and Sharia law system on the whole of Nigeria. What happened that day, on May 29, 2019 was symbolic for the Muslim world. The OIC Arab Islamic countries had slated their Plenary Assembly to coincide exactly with that day of Nigeria’s inauguration of the newly reelected President Buhari. It was not by accident at all. They were at Saudi Arabia waiting for Buhari to finish the job, come, and report back to them officially.

This is why those people who are castigating and abusing Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for the way he was disgraced at the arena of Presidential inauguration that day should stop it. The man did not breach any protocol at all. Because his name was on the official list of dignitaries invited from the word go to be at that position. He was invited and positioned there by competent authorities.

But what happened that morning was that as the inauguration ceremony and military salute was about to begin, Oshiomhole was spotted out by the Cabal as the most visibly non-Fulani and the only Christian standing among the Fulani Muslim ruling Oligarchy high ranking dignitaries, waiting to take salute and have handshake with the President. He was like a “Gentile” to them. They had to order him out immediately.

This was the major reason Oshiomhole was ordered out in disgrace. I can assure you that if his deputy Chairman of APC, a Fulani Muslim, or Governor El Rufai of Kaduna State, was the person standing in that place, nobody would have dared ordering him out. The fact is that Oshiomhole standing with them and wearing his habitual Western and Christian comrade attire, that enough was a wrong signal to the Cabal and the Muslim world. For them, it meant that the battle is not yet over. So, Oshiomhole became their victim that morning.

In civilized world, the National Chairman of the ruling Party as well as his counterpart from the main opposition Party, take dignified positions of that grade on inauguration days. This is because, as the National Chairman of the ruling party, Oshiomhole has an enormous responsibility in determining the direction of the political administration of the country. This is why National Party Chairmen enjoy some privileges and are highly respected.


In fact, in normal circumstances, the National Chairman of the ruling Party, is supposed to keep an eye on the President and his ministers as well as on members of the party in the National Assembly. This is because he has to make sure that the Party’s electioneering Manifestos, are strictly, adhered to by the executive and legislative arms of government.


If Nigeria is a functioning country really, following what happened that day of inauguration, the National Assembly is supposed to have by now, summoned the Police Chief and Chief of Protocol for interrogations for the embarrassment Oshiomhole suffered that day. The fact is that Oshiomhole was disgraced at the inauguration arena because of his Christian religion and ethnicity. This is the naked truth, many may not like to discuss.


Furthermore, with that symbolic act, the President and his handlers are telling the world that Nigeria as a whole, has finally, been won over for Islam. That sooner, or later, Christians would come to know their new status as “protected” second-class citizens ( dhimmi ) in an Islamic nation, Nigeria; that is, like their counterparts in modern Egypt (Copt Orthodox Christians) or in Turkey.

The churches could no longer hold their faithful against the stimulating effects of the “new” and vigorous” Islam. The Coptic Church survived in Egypt as a minority ( dhimmi ), for which it had to pay tax.


Lets hope and pray that God will never allow Christians and indigenous populations of Nigeria to experience such a thing like what happened to the first centuries’ churches and Christians of North Africa. Neither would we like to have in Nigeria the recent experience of Christians in Lebanon at the hands of their Arab Muslim Palestinian immigrants, whom they had welcomed in their country some years back as refugees.


Conclusion
The picture of a Nigerian President carrying a “Sharia law bag” in taking oath of office is very disturbing. It portends a grave danger for the future of Christianity in Nigeria as well as for the continued existence of our dear country as one indivisible African nation state.

For many knowledgeable Nigerians, by choosing to carry a Sharia law bag and wear it like a turban in taking oath of office on May 29, 2019 at Abuja, Buhari has drawn a battle line between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria. He has as well declared a kind of “cold-war” between his Mujahedeen Fulani Muslims ethnic-group and Non-Fulani ethnic-nationalities and indigenous populations of Nigeria. Will he be able to accomplish the devilish ambition? Certainly no!

Likewise, nobody will ever succeed in his or her evil design to impose Islamic religion and Fulani culture on non-Fulani Ethnic nationalities of the country.

The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.

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Nigerians simply have to develop a mindset of resisting them and not always hoping they wont do evil.

RESIST Fulani herdsmen TOTALLY with every means at your disposal!

Una no go kill person with laff for this una circus when una dey pretend say na country. Everybody dey form him own conspiracy theory. Which one be “sharia law bag” again?

Curlieweed:
Una no go kill person with laff for this una circus when una dey pretend say na country. Everybody dey form him own conspiracy theory. Which one be “sharia law bag” again?

sir, do your findings

His people have started committing untold atrocities esp in the south west. The mod that banned me for posting the atrocities and their ongoing crime, I pray that you or your relatives will not come across these marauders but one day, you will be an eye witness to their crimes

Our fears and suspicions are only perceptions that most often than not don't ever come to pass!

WILL THIS RECURRING ALLEGATION OF AN "ISLAMIZATION AGENDA" EVER MATERIALISE IN NGERIA?

I am now a little above fifty years. Since when I started reading sometimes in late 70s, Nigerians and the whole world have been bamboozled with an alleged Hausa-Fulani/Muslim agenda to dominate the country politically and economically. The budding and exuberant post-colonial news media, mostly originating and concentrated in the southern part of the country gave extra ordinary fillip to this narrative orchestrated then by some politicians to achieve their ultimate selfish interest of territorial and regional captivity.

The terminology used for this conspiracy theory has evolved over time. Between the 50s and 80s it was termed “Northernization Agenda” allegedly aimed at dominating and exploiting other regions, weaken them and ensure they can’t compete with the ‘monolithic and feudalistic north’. This term however melted away after the country achieved much integration through state creation, implementation of the Federal character principle and the National youth service scheme by some of our very creative, selfless and patriotic leaders.

Then came in the 90s, a brand new name. This time it was christened “Islamization Agenda”. Yet again some southern-based mushrooming and vociferous news media, now joined by others from the middle belt (supposedly Christian dominated ethnic minorities) feverishly expend their intellectual and financial resources to continually spread this sentiment cleverly introduced and promoted by certain disgruntled, religio-ethnocentric and unpatriotic politicians to make way for themselves and cronies to gain (or regain) access to power and state resources.

The “Islamization Agenda” has also transmuted (or extended?) to “Fulanization Agenda” just a couple of weeks ago. It has to be so because “northenization agenda” failed to materialize, so also “islamization agenda”. Or perhaps they are yet to materialize. The power mongering bigots suddenly realized this scare strategy is now out of fashion since there are Muslims as indigenes of almost all states of the Federal republic of Nigeria. Also, both Christian and Muslims occupy different levels of leadership positions at all tiers of governance in the country. Mosques and churches are found in every state of the federation. All tiers of government in Nigeria promote both Christian and Islamic pilgrimages. Hence the selfish and unpatriotic gladiators have to innovate and creatively change the name but sustain the campaign of hate; acrimony and suspicion to enable them and their cronies remain relevant and accessible to state resources at the centre or at least in their territories or regions.

I am a fulfilled Nigerian citizen born to parents of Idoma nationality. I am an independent Christian pastor having no affiliation to any political party or association whatsoever. But as a proud citizen of this blessed and beautiful country, I owe it the duty irrespective of our differences to always speak and act in a manner that will promote the general peace, progress and wellbeing, and this calls for tolerance, understanding and necessary sacrifices.

There are always conspiracies among living things. Individuals, groups and societies many conspire against each other, even brothers or couples. No doubt about that. But we need to look at this recurring much worn out and difficult to prove allegation of “Northernization”,” Islamization”, and now “Fulanization” agenda critically to see if it has any merit.

First of all, it is now clear that instead of any regional dominance, the country has been undergoing gradual and peaceful integration as a federation evidenced in the series of state and local government creation exercises. This singular policy has enabled devolution of power, fair distribution of national resources and representative governance by different groups and nationalities. There is still room for improvement, and through peaceful and patient engagements we can continue to tweak things progressively. With the level of literacy and exposure our political elites have gained one wonders why all the bickering and war mongering about marginalization or domination by one region or the other.

The most absurd and dullest of all is the allegation of an “Islamization Agenda”. Where? By who? And how?
Is it in Nigeria which has maintained a secular status in its Grundnorm since its creation as a nation? Is it in Nigeria where all religious faithful are represented across all tiers of government and legislature? Is it in Nigeria where all citizens irrespective of religion or tribe inter marry, do business together and live peacefully together?

Who can we exactly say or pinpoint as being behind this islamization agenda? Is it an individual, group or governments? Agreed that Muslims will be glad to see more people converted to islam just like Christians and other religion faithful, but it’s inconceivable to suggest that Muslims or Christians in Nigeria today will contemplate and attempt to implement an era of any form of ‘holy war’ or jihad or crusade to forcefully take over the whole space.

Every discerning person in Nigeria (except those who want to play on our fault lines) already know that the presently decimated boko haram malaise is only our own share of the global wave of bestial terrorism/criminality. Same for kidnapping, robbery, ritual killing, etc prevalent in the south. All these are ageless human problems that have always been there in differing proportions across all societies.

As Nigeria is presently constituted, any national islamization policy can only be enforced through legislation across all the tiers of legislature after a successful referendum of all people of the federation. Any other way will be an aberration. Currently there is no constitutional process ongoing or being suggested to indicate anything like that is in the offing. A state setting up bylaws to regulate religious conducts for peaceful co-existence of its residents does not in any way connote islamization or Christianization of Nigeria. Citing a new mosque (like erecting a new church building) anywhere in Nigeria doesn’t mean islamization of the country. Sharia laws being used side by side our customary laws does not set aside the supremacy of our national constitution. Declaring Islamic holidays does not sieze our rights as Christians or Nigerians. Moslems/Fulanis acquiring land legitimately and living in any part of the country doesn’t islamise the country. After we have all being co-existing like this since inception.

This brings us to the new laughable but most dangerous narrative in town: “Fulanization Agenda”. I think much bickering and hustle for power and relevance make some people throw caution to the winds. The impression being created is like: Buhari, a Fulani man was sponsored by the Fulani race in Nigeria (or worldwide) throughout his four attempts to become president of Nigeria so as to conquer this niger area for his kit and kin. Then may be, Buhari has to appoint a Christian Vice, hordes of Christian cabinet members, aides and some non Muslim security chiefs to help him achieve this hell-brewed fulanization agenda.

Please wake up and let’s stand up for our dear country. As a leader or parent, whenever there is a misunderstanding or crisis among your subjects or children you must find an amicable way to resolve it short term, midterm or long term. Farmers/herders clashes predates Nigeria, and like every other life phenomenon, ebbs and rises with time. Like every other constituted authority before now, Buhari , the federal cabinet of ministers from all states and the National Economic council made up of all state governors and heads of some strategic agencies have painstakingly brainstormed and put forward proposals to help stem the current wave of this crisis. Also, some ingenious and well meaning governors have creatively and dispassionately engaged all stakeholders and together found ways to manage the crisis without much ado.

However very few state executives for whatever reasons best known to them are insisting on some reactionary, myopic measures that has not and can never resolve this crisis. These same state governors have stoutly maintain opposition to any attempt of the federal government to resolve this problem. Not only that, they also passionately use state resources to mount a virulent campaign of calumny against Buhari and the central government thereby inciting angst and discord In the citizenry. This has also provided cheap cannon fodder for some disgruntled, unpatriotic do or die politicians, sectional religious/traditional leaders and supposed elder statesmen to sow the seeds of fear and fan the embers of disunity in a bid to gain or maintain political relevance and access to state patronage
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The best thing to do by any well meaning person in a crisis situation is to be non partisan, if you want to solve the problem rather than becoming part of the problem. If anyone feels the federal government’s intervention is not good enough, such person or people should bring forward their suggestions rather than reading ulterior motive into government’s effort in solving the crisis. Also suggesting any one-sided, myopic solution is tantamount to perpetuating the crisis.

In conclusion I humbly make the following submissions:
1. It doesn’t appear there is any northernization/islamization/fulanization agenda at any time or anywhere in Nigeria. This shouting of “wolf! Wolf!” that could not materialize since independence, and throughout the military era will be very difficult if not totally impossible now that we are operating participatory democracy with full representation of all people and tribes of Nigeria. There is nothing to indicate after over fifty years of nationhood to show that the north is better off than the southern region, using any criterion. It would have been easier to believe that the later may have conspire to keep the former perpetually lagging behind.

2. Christians, like other religions faithful should not develop inferiority complex, neither appear as if they are leaving in fear, hopelessness and helplessness in the world (this country) in as much as we are not chained in our mind, spirit or body. We are not less privileged in Nigeria; neither are we second class citizens. Let’s be careful, because you are what you think. Besides, like our Lord Jesus, we must be peace makers, accommodating, tolerant and live in understanding with our neighbors. After all, we are only in the world, we are not of the world; and our weapons of warfare are not carnal but spiritual. God knows how and always vindicate His own. Let’s not align with ethnic jingoists and political war lords, neither share in their sentiments that causes tension in the polity. Through selfless prayers and righteousness, God’s purpose and plans for our country will be established.

3. Our elders and army of youths in this country should think and appreciate God and some of our past and present crop of leaders who did everything to ensure we have a country of our own to this day, after all the ensuing crises since amalgamation (that is over a hundred years now). Our elder statesmen have fully enjoyed the resources of this country, which is still in abundance. They should not attempt to destabilize the nation by their utterances or actions. The youths are waiting in the wings to move this country forward and further exploit its strength and beauties for its citizens and the whole world.

4. Even if Nigeria is further divided and restructured into clans or families, there will still be misunderstanding and crises. We must learn and work to live together in spite of our differences. Let’s put away every form of envying, jealousy and strife that serves to tear us apart.