Presidency 2023: Three religious wars already ongoing in Nigeria, Ogede fires back at Farooq Kperogi

By: Joseph A. Adudu, March 24, 2022

Emmanuel Ogede, Nigerian-US based Legal Practitioner and human rights activist

Barr. Emmanuel Ogede has described the recent article by Prof. Farooq Kperogi on Prof. Yemi Osibanjo's Presidential ambition as purely sophist hypothesis and one of his worst yet. Recall that in his article titled, "10 reasons Osibanjo will ignite a religious civil war", Kperogi posited that a Yemi Osibanjo presidency would, without doubt, plunge Nigeria into the depths of a smouldering religious volcano that will hasten its self-immolation. The said article was published on different social media platforms. However, reacting to the said publication, Ogede submitted thus,"You claim Osinbajo will “ignite religious civil” but do not say he started one already. Rather you imply but do not clearly state that you actually mean Muslims will start a religious war.

"Secondly you erroneously claim Osinbajo is a PFN member. He is not, not being a head of a Pentecostal denomination. Cobbling quotes from PFN to attribute them to him is thus disingenuous.
"Thirdly if Christians are only praying for others to convert and peacefully requesting representation in politics, that is better than Boko Haram who are doing so by violence and those who promised to mix the blood of baboons and hyaenas".

The Nigerian-US based Legal Practitioner and human rights activist added that as a matter of fact, it was a credit to the people of Lagos that their peaceful agitation for a Christian governor was harkened to unlike the North where even deputy governor usually consigned to Christians was pilfered in Kaduna and other states.

"I have disagreed with Osinbajo vehemently myself throughout his tenure but your extreme characterization of him is unwarranted.

"It is ironic that after an extremist like Buhari who is so dangerous that even Tinubu and El-Rufai fellow Muslims called him out, anyone would call Osinbajo an extremist.

"He was good enough to be used to mitigate Buhari’s Islamic extremism but is not good enough to be president?

"The saddest thing is that no mention was made about his qualification for the job, his intellectual superiority to Buhari or even his basic competence which was self-evident during his time as acting President.

"An Osinbajo can NEVER be worse than a Buhari. If anyone ignites religious war in Nigeria, it is not Christians".
Speaking further, he said, "If you’re threatening that Muslims will start a religious war in Nigeria, you’re rather late.

Farooq Kperogi, Nigerian US-based Professor of Mass Communication

"There are at minimum, three religious wars currently ongoing 1. Boko Haram ISWA, 2. Fulani killer militia, 3. Buhari’s non-violent Fulanization of the Federal govt. Nigerians should be thankful that Christians practice prayer and not violence. That’s been the saving grace of Nigeria" Ogede said.

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