Buhari wants Sharia Law,Electing him is a disaster for Africa –Ex US envoy

A former spokesman for four United
States Ambassadors to the United
Nations, Richard Grenell, has said that if former military Head of State,
General Muhammadu Buhari, emerges as the next president of Nigeria in next Saturday’s elections, it would be a disaster for the entire African continent.

According to Punch ,Grenell, who made the declaration in a piece titled: Nigeria on the brink, and which was published in the Washington Times, a US based
publication, of Thursday, March 19,
2015, described Buhari as working
tirelessly to enthrone Sharia law across the country, which he said would further pose a major challenge to the fight against terrorism in Nigeria and
the continent at large.

He said....

“Western foreign policy
observers pre-occupied with the
rise of ISIS in the Middle East
should wake up to the reality
unfolding in Nigeria. Opposition
candidate General Buhari wants
Sharia law throughout Nigeria. In
fact, he wants it everywhere.
“Is this an indication that Buhari
supports violence because the end
goal of the terrorist attacks
throughout Nigeria and Africa is
an Islamic state? It is a legitimate
question that should be asked by
leaders of the Obama
administration...

“Boko Haram has pledged its
allegiance and support to ISIS.
The Northern Nigerian based
Islamic terrorist group wants
Sharia law throughout the country
and beyond. They are also
actively terrorising Chad, Niger
and Cameroon with their goal of
an Islamic state.

“Buhari has also spoken
sympathetically about members of
the terrorist group Boko Haram,
has cautioned against a rush to
judgement on its members and
has personally been selected by
the terrorist group to lead its
negotiations with the Government
of Nigeria.
“Buhari’s election as Nigeria’s
head of state would be a disaster
for Africa. It would also signal
trouble for the West’s fight
against ISIS and terrorism
throughout the Middle East.”

According to Grenell, Goodluck
Jonathan has made commendable
inroads in strangling Boko Haram to
submission in recent weeks and so
deserves the support of the Barack
Obama led United States administration and the rest of the world.

“The Nigerian economy has been
growing faster than South
Africa’s.

Imagine what Nigeria could do for Africa if it was also free of Boko Haram’s violence.

The Obama Administration should
be doing more to ensure Africa’s
most populous country doesn’t
slip away,”
“Islamic radicals have Africa on
their target list and young
Nigerians are reported to be
interested in ISIS’ messages.
Nigeria is at a tipping point. The
West, and specifically the Obama
Administration, needs to wake up
to the growing problem,” he said.
In October 2014 during an interview
with TheCable, Buhari had said that he was not a religious fundamentalist or extremist as his opponents had alleged..

“Nigerians will always uncover
impossible room for manoeuvre
for politicians. In 2003, I chose
Chuba Okadigbo as my running
mate. He was a Roman Catholic.
He was an Igbo. In 2007, I picked
Edwin Ume-Ezeoke. He was a
Roman Catholic. He was an Igbo.

And in 2010, I chose even a
pastor, Pastor Tunde Bakare.
“Honestly, what do Nigerians
want me to do? If they don’t
believe I’m not a fundamentalist,
what else can I do? The era of
short-changing people in the
name of religion should stop,”