Muslims Who Criticize Buhari Risk Being Labelled 'Shiites'

Muhammadu Buhari

After 14 years of Southern/Christian rule that brought hardship, disunity and instability  to Nigeria; the Muslim north of Nigeria felt it was time to press hard for a change. 

Gaddafi Is Superior to Buhari

Gaddafi (Left) and Buhari (Right)

Like is the norm, guilty people always pass the blame onto something else. The killer herdsmen

menace came on board in Nigeria with the coming of the Buhari regime. The regime always wants to blame the backward state of the nation on largely non-existent forces.

After over three years of blaming the past PDP administration for the woes of the country, the Buhari administration has run out of people to blame and is now blaming dead people who had little or absolutely no business with Nigeria for the despicable state of the country.

On Thursday (11th April 2018), in a meeting with the Bishop of Canterbury in the UK, Buhari alleged that the killer herdsmen in Nigeria were trained by Late Libyan Leader, Muammar Gaddafi. President Buhari said in the meeting, “The problem is even older than us. It has always been there, but now made worse by the influx of armed gunmen from the Sahel region into different parts of the West African sub-region. These gunmen were trained and armed by Muammar Gadaffi of Libya. When he was killed, the gunmen escaped with their arms”.

Buhari became President of Nigeria on 29^th May 2015, Muammar Gaddafi was killed in Libya on 20^th October 2011 In other words, Gaddafi was killed 3 years, 7 months and 9 days before Buhari became President of Nigeria. How then can Buhari accuse late Gaddafi of trying to destabilize his government?

In Buhari's statement, he did not mention when these killer herdsmen were trained neither did he mention the intelligence sources that made the discorvery. He alleged that the arms being used by the killer herdsmen are part of the arms Gaddafi distributed to his supporters during his struggle to remain in power. Buhari was probably not briefed well enough to know that in June of 2011, France air-dropped around 40 tons of ammunition for the terrorists fighting Gaddafi's government. Part of this arms has gotten to countries such as Mali and Chad, it is very possible that terrorists in Nigeria have also gotten their hands on some of these arms but, it will be madness and injustice to put the blame on Gaddafi, a man who benefitted his people more than any other leader in the history of modern Africa.

Gaddafi's government was known for nothing but the advocating of the progress of Africa. Gaddafi led Libya from being one of the poorest countries in the world to a country with one of the best standards of living in the world, something the Buhari regime will never achieve with its set-up.

This allegation against Gaddafi is an insult to Muslims as outside politics; Gaddafi always showed his soft spot for Islam and Muslims even though he had certain views on Islam which were not generally accepted. Gaddafi built several Masajid (Mosques) in different countries in Africa and accepted migrants from different parts of the continent. What would the Late Gaddafi had intended to gain by arming terrorists in a country like Nigeria.

Gaddafi spoke out against the oppression of Palestinians, something Buhari has never done. Gaddafi rejected the secularist approach to Arab nationalism that had been pervasive in Syria, instead, he deemed Arabism and Islam to be inseparable, referring to them as "one and indivisible". Gaddafi insisted that Islamic law should be the basis for the law of the state; Buhari has never shown any form of inclination to Islamic law. 

Gaddafi desired unity across the Islamic world and encouraged the propagation of Islam elsewhere. On a 2010 visit to Italy, Gaddafi paid a modeling agency to get 200 young Italian women for a lecture he gave urging them to embrace Islam. Buhari has never initiated any effort to propagate Islam. 

Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi was born in 1943 in a tent outside the town of Sirte in the deserts of Tripolitania, western Libya. His family came from a small, tribe called the Qadhadhfa who were Arabized Berber in heritage. His mother, Aisha, died in 1978, and his father, Mohammad Abdul Salam bin Hamed bin Mohammad, was a poor goat and camel herder who died in 1985. 

Gaddafi became one of the founders of the African Union initiated in July 2002 to replace the OAU; at the opening ceremonies, he called for African states to reject conditional aid from the developed world; Buhari on the other hand has joined the group of African leaders enslaving their countries to the west by procuring senseless foreign loans. 

At the third AU summit held in Libya in July 2005, he called for greater integration, advocating a single AU passport, a common defence system, and a single currency, utilizing the slogan: "The United States of Africa is the hope." In August 2008 Gaddafi was proclaimed "King of Kings" by a committee of traditional African leaders. He was crowned in February 2009, in a ceremony held in Ethiopia; this coincided with Gaddafi's election as AU chairman for a year. With the ideology of Buhari, he will NEVER attain such a high status on the continent. 

Gaddafi's earliest education was religious, imparted by a local Islamic teacher. He moved to Sirte to attend elementary school where he progressed through six grades in four years. Education in Libya was not free, but his father thought it would greatly benefit his son despite the financial strain. During the week Gaddafi slept in a mosque and at weekends walked 20 miles to visit his parents. 

Gaddafi had flaws since he was human but Buhari’s flaws are far more significant than Gaddafi’s. Whether politically or spiritually-Muammar Gaddafi is a far more superior personality than Muhammadu Buhari.