Some people are very jobless in this country and they talk as if they own Nigeria. For a long time now, some other segments of this country have tolerated them, and the leadership of this nation has behaved in such a way that they have imagined they can just open their mouths and talk trash.
The President of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, during their 2026 annual pre-Ramadan lecture on Nigeria’s future, faith, justice, and leadership, Sheikh Bashir Umar, said that any election conducted by Prof. Jega’s successor — INEC Chairman Joash Amupitan — will not be accepted by Muslims in Nigeria There are simple questions I want to ask
- Is there a contest between Muslims and Christians in this election?
- Is the election between a Muslim and a Christian?
- Did Christians not accept the Muslim-Muslim ticket?
The elections were conducted by Professor Mahmood Yakubu, a Muslim. Did Christians protest?
I wonder why religion assassinates the intellect of people who are supposed to be reasonable.
There was a time when the INEC chairman wrote a report about Christian genocide. How does that affect elections? His opinion does not affect his work. He is not going to rig elections.
Are you people telling me that elections are decided by the INEC chairman? Is the INEC chairman the one going to the field to conduct elections? Or are you insinuating that the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the APC was rigged because Mahmood Yakubu was a Muslim?
How do you people reason?
So somebody cannot air an opinion and still conduct free and fair elections?
Let me ask you another question
Of all the problems Muslims have in Nigeria, is this election your primary concern? Insecurity in the North where Muslims are being yamotonised
- Low development indices
- Low education
- Begging on the streets
- Poor healthcare
- Open defecation — capital of the world
Let me ask you again
The countries where Sharia is practiced — Iran — do they conduct free and fair elections? Are citizens not revolting?
Afghanistan under the Taliban — have they produced outstanding results?
You people — both Christians and Muslims — do you think religion is what brings development?
Nigeria and Afghanistan are among the most prayerful nations in the world and also among the poorest.
You just dance to religious music to intoxicate your followers — Christian and Muslim alike. They don’t ask you questions.
All the Boko Haram activity — are those not Muslim-dominated areas? Have you spoken against that?
You just talk rubbish.
Let me ask a final question about Sharia
Is Sharia only for poor people who steal chickens?
What about Muslims who stole billions of naira — will you apply Sharia to them? Or is Sharia only for the poor?
Let me talk to you hypocrites — including Christians. Your children are not in Nigeria. My children are not here. They are overseas.
Your children are schooling in countries that do not practice Sharia. Yet you are here shouting Sharia! Sharia! Sharia!
When you fall sick, you go overseas. When El-Zakzaky was sick, they took him to India.
But when poor people fall sick, they yamotonize in one-room hospitals. Very hypocritical people.
When Muslims go on exile, they go to the UK , Sweden, the US. Same thing with Christians.
Stop using religion as a tool for self-aggrandisement.
If Joash Amupitan conducts a free and fair election, we will accept it.
How many Muslims did you consult?
A few elite, wicked people just sat down and spoke for everybody.
You have been given too much latitude, and CAN and PFN are too quiet.
Politicians who stole billions — some are in prison and courts are granting them permission to go on “religious pilgrimages”.
Fake prayers in Mecca.
Fake prayers in Rome.
Fake prayers in cathedrals and mosques.
Wicked people using religion to destroy this country.
I am a clergyman, but religion is not Nigeria’s problem.
Our problem is reasoning, planning, technology, and justice — for both the poor and the rich.
Let me ask one final question
Are you the Supreme Court?
It was the Supreme Court that decided the election — not INEC.
So keep quiet and stay in your lane.
Yeye dey smell.
