{"id":5092,"date":"2019-02-22T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2019-02-22T16:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T16:05:01","slug":"breaking-buhari-finally-speaks-on-alleged-plot-to-islamise-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/breaking-buhari-finally-speaks-on-alleged-plot-to-islamise-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Buhari finally speaks on alleged \u2018plot to Islamise Nigeria\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday condemned allegation that he was planning to Islamise Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>His spokesman, Femi Adesina, in a statement said, ahead of the forthcoming elections, some unscrupulous Nigerians are again falsely and wickedly claiming that the administration has an agenda to impose Islam on Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe objective is clearly to stoke up religious division for political gains. Some of these same persons made these devious and fabricated claims ahead of the 2015 election. They failed woefully.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari-london.-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari-london.-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari-london.-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari-london.-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari-london..jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n\u201cThe President strongly affirms the oath he took before the Nigerian people to faithfully defend the Constitution of Nigeria. That Constitution guarantees freedom of worship for every Nigerian. It is this guarantee that enables all Nigerians to practise their faiths or religion without hindrance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Buhari further affirms his commitment to freedom of religion and worship for all Nigerians, and that under no circumstance will any religion or faith be imposed on any Nigerian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is dangerous, deceptive and ungodly to play politics with religion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday condemned allegation that he was planning to Islamise Nigeria. His spokesman, Femi Adesina, in a statement said, ahead of the forthcoming elections, some unscrupulous Nigerians are again falsely and wickedly claiming that the administration has an agenda to impose Islam on Nigeria. He said: \u201cThe objective is clearly to stoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14],"tags":[97,204,353,177,235],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-government","tag-islam","tag-politics","tag-president"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Buhari finally speaks on alleged \u2018plot to Islamise Nigeria\u2019 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/breaking-buhari-finally-speaks-on-alleged-plot-to-islamise-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Buhari finally speaks on alleged \u2018plot to Islamise Nigeria\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday condemned allegation that he was planning to Islamise Nigeria. 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