Politics 'Total' Sharia Law Should be Introduced Across Nigeria - Buhari [Archived]

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Date Stamp: 2001-08-27
Source: AFP

Lagos - A former military ruler of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has called for the introduction of 'total' Islamic law across the country, reports said on Monday.

Buhari, who ruled Nigeria from a coup in December 1983 to his ouster in 1985, told a seminar in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, at the weekend that the strict Islamic law code known as the Sharia should be introduced in full across Nigeria.

"I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria," Buhari said, quoted in press reports.

"God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country," Buhari said.

Northern Nigeria is mainly Muslim but southern Nigeria is mainly Christian and has led criticism of the introduction of Islamic law in a dozen northern states in the past 18 months.

Africa's most populous country has been shaken repeatedly in the past by religious unrest. In February 2000 between 2 000 and 3 000 people were killed by Christian-Muslim riots in Kaduna over the introduction of Sharia.


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If anyone is a retard it should be those reading an article stamped August 2001 and making a big deal out of it. Come on!!! Is Nigerian bulletin really out of stories or did they get paid to post this?

What I am concerned about with Nigerian Politics is that there seems to be a statute of limitations with statements and deeds of politicians and other leaders in our society. They can do anything, say anything and after 4 years it should be forgotten. My statement does not just cover this case but in all cases. Nowhere else would one hear that this happened in 2001 and it is now not significant. There have been archive post from politicians of all colours and creed (if we can keep up with them) and the response from each side is celebration when it is not their house and disgust when it is. The accusations are always the same. They have been bribed to post this. They took money from APC or PDP etc...

The article is from news24 - the biggest media group in Africa and there is a clear link to that article
http://www.news24.com/xArchive/Archive/Calls-for-total-Sharia-in-Nigeria-20010827

Personally I do not care either way but you need to be able to talk about these issues. Ironically, I believe GMB would be able to look people in the face and explain this quite convincingly but our blind defence of people from all sides is the problem we have in our politics today.

From this day on we should not speak of anything done during the Abacha regime or any other regime in Nigeria as the social media statutes of limitation is 4 years.
 
What I am concerned about with Nigerian Politics is that there seems to be a statute of limitations with statements and deeds of politicians and other leaders in our society. They can do anything, say anything and after 4 years it should be forgotten. My statement does not just cover this case but in all cases. Nowhere else would one hear that this happened in 2001 and it is now not significant. There have been archive post from politicians of all colours and creed (if we can keep up with them) and the response from each side is celebration when it is not their house and disgust when it is. The accusations are always the same. They have been bribed to post this. They took money from APC or PDP etc...

The article is from news24 - the biggest media group in Africa and there is a clear link to that article
http://www.news24.com/xArchive/Archive/Calls-for-total-Sharia-in-Nigeria-20010827

Personally I do not care either way but you need to be able to talk about these issues. Ironically, I believe GMB would be able to look people in the face and explain this quite convincingly but our blind defence of people from all sides is the problem we have in our politics today.

From this day on we should not speak of anything done during the Abacha regime or any other regime in Nigeria as the social media statutes of limitation is 4 years.

Thank you sir!

@Jules @Lequte @Samod Biobaku
 
@ismail ibrahim do you really believe people who plan on potentially running a country shouldn't be taken serious for their words (pretty serious words, I daresay) because they said it years ago?

As @TheLeftWing has mentioned above, the link is legit, so there's no smear campaign here. Someone once said, "it's not slander if it's true."

But you already know that. Your real problem here is that he said it years ago so we should forget it. You probably also believe that actions of the past have no effect on events of today.

I'm sorry, but that's not how the world works. His words in 2001 - when he was VERY politically relevant as today - are still very relevant today. We need to know the mental processes of the person we plan on voting in, and what better way to evaluate that than on the basis of their conduct so far?
 
This man is really retarded.
Any attempt to make Nigeria an Islamic state will always be kicked against hard and Buhari knows this too well. I really do not bother about how much noise is made kicking against Buhari's call for a Shariah state or if the politician will regurgitate this call. All I want is a system that can assure me that criminals can be nabbed and put in that lovely room with dull colours and room-mates called inmates.
 
Maybe Buhari is now a changed man. It's only human to make mistakes and think differently decades later.
Even if Buhari has become softened by the currents of time, I do hope this has not softened him in any way. The Nigerian state cannot be governed by a softened heart for the minds that run the system are brutal, remorseless and have embraced all extreme measures; even murder and assassination.
 
Maybe Buhari is now a changed man. It's only human to make mistakes and think differently decades later.
Public figures should learn to think before speaking. It's not okay to open your mouth and yap anyhow then you expect me to forget it. Don't say anything that has the potential of coming back to bite you.
 
Public figures should learn to think before speaking. It's not okay to open your mouth and yap anyhow then you expect me to forget it. Don't say anything that has the potential of coming back to bite you.
I am yet to come across that perfect man; either within our outside the political arena - As my brothers and sisters in the temple would say: "Let he without sin cast the first stone."
 
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