{"id":93002,"date":"2022-03-20T14:57:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T13:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=93002"},"modified":"2022-03-20T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T13:57:14","slug":"shehu-sani-warns-against-religious-groups-creating-political-departments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shehu-sani-warns-against-religious-groups-creating-political-departments\/","title":{"rendered":"Shehu Sani warns against religious groups creating political departments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1727827238528445545\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former Senator from Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has reacted over Tinubu\u2019s comment that Supreme Council for Shari\u2019a should create political departments in Nigeria, stressing that it would be a dangerous development for the country.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nIt would be recalled that Bola Tinubu, a presidential candidate under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Annual National Conference and Pre-Ramadan Meeting of the Supreme Council for Shari\u2019ah in Osogbo yesterday, had urged the Council to create politcal departments that could aid the political sensitization of Muslim voters in Nigeria as 2023 election approaches.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He also solicited the support of the Council towards his presidential ambition, adding that Muslims must not be left out in the politcal process of the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Reacting through a tweet on Sunday, Sani warned that Nigeria is a complex country with diverse religions, adding that any move towards the creation of politcal departments in religious groups would render the country theocratic.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He wrote: \u201cOnce our religious groups in the North begin to set up politcal departments, it is not just going to \u2018a department\u2019 like in the RCCG, it is going to be a breeding unit for fanatical religiously crafted political ideas\u00a0in pursuit of a theocratic State.\u201cAbeg, let the sleeping Lion lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Senator from Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has reacted over Tinubu\u2019s comment that Supreme Council for Shari\u2019a should create political departments in Nigeria, stressing that it would&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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