At a time when the alleged acrimonious campaign to Islamize Nigeria by an emerging power bloc is almost gaining currency, few members of the public, the Press, or the political class have never actually presumed — in context or in full— the hidden agenda of the new clique of powerful anti-Christian elements whose ultimate design is to implement the secret accord they had with their sponsors using Professor Yemi Osinbajo, a pastor, as dress rehearsal. The clamour by a section of the political class to push for the emergence of a Muslim as the new Senate President in spite of the its inelegant religious statement since the President-elect General Muhamadu Buhari is a Muslim and the sure bait of another Muslim emerging from the Northeast as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, flies in the face of rationality.
*Saraki: Senate President
This dangerous maneuver puts at risks, to say
the least, nothing less than the survival of the structure of our government as
set in place by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which in
its wisdom recognizes the Federal Character and ethno-religious paradigms of
our Union . If this terrible gamble scales
through, what now passes for constitutional theory in our most prestigious law
schools, in many of our courts, and in much of liberal society is not legal
theory at all, but an egalitarian political agenda which no elected legislature
will enact, thereby prompting an elite intellectual and political minority to
use the courts as a means of fighting the imposition of religious agendas.
