If Pantami Is A Baby Terrorist, What Does That Make Buhari?
By Adebayo Raphael Listen to article
It is too damning to ignore. If you have not read the recent exposé on Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Ali Isa Ibrahim Pantami’s indelible history of espousing extremist religious ideologies, I suggest you go ahead and catch up quickly. It is not the type of story that you fully understand by word of mouth.
Almost a century and seven years since Nigeria was shoddily put together by the British for economic and administrative conveniences, the basic differences that distinguish the then southern protectorate from the northern protectorate continue to play a central role in the malfunctioning of the country. The intractable religious differences, compounded by the fact that one-third of Nigeria’s 36 states are already operating the Islamic Sharia Law, have led to several communal conflicts and violent clashes in the past and continue to predominate th