Kperogi says Buhari understands the predisposition of northern Muslims, the reason he is not bothered with the protest
By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
President Muhammadu Buhari can’t be bothered by the pockets of protest in the North against insecurity, says U.S. based Nigerian Professor of Journalism at Kennesaw State University, Farooq Kperogi.
In his weekly column, Kperogi said what could bother Buhari is if he upsets the religious balance by converting to Christianity, or blaspheming the religion.
Kperogi says: “You can smolder the Northern masses with economic asphyxiation, as Buhari is doing now, and they would make peace with their fate with listless acquiescence, but blaspheme their religion or even icons of their religion, and they would rise up in arms and murder indiscriminately.”
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Kperogi says Buhari understands the predisposition of northern Muslims, the reason he is not bothered with the protest that greeted the murder of almost 40 travellers burnt to death by bandits. He said instead of paying condolence visit to Sokoto, the home state of the travellers, Buhari decided to fraternize with his friends at a book launch in Lagos.
Buhari has jet out of the country to Turkey where the Nigerian Mission in the country,celebrated his 79th birthday in Grand Style.
Kperogi said Buhari can’t be bothered by those deaths because the northerners have other priorities.
“A week ago, a Facebook friend from the North wrote on my timeline that the mass deaths of northerners in the hands of murderous brutes while the state looks away is less important than the “un-Islamic” dressing of a Kannywood female star! I kid you not. I was too weak to respond to him. But he captures the mindset of the average northern Muslim man,” Kperogi said.
Kperogi said the problem among northern Muslims is that they have been socialised to “fight” for God against fellow humans but ask God to fight for them when they are being murdered by other humans who share their ethnicity and religion.
He added: ” The same Nigerians who fly into a tempestuous holy rage and ask for the blood of their fellow humans when their God is ‘blasphemed’ are the same people who’re asking for their God’s intervention— instead of acting— now that their relatives and friends are being murdered like animals by terrorist bandits.
“If you have the capacity to defend God, shouldn’t you have even greater capacity to defend yourself since self-preservation is said to be the first law of nature? Or is “God-preservation” and self-annihilation the first law of nature in Nigeria?
“If God, with his omnipotent powers, can’t deal with blasphemers on his own but needs your defense, why and how do you think he can defend you against people who’re smoldering you?”
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