FCT Minister alleged Ban on Alcohol, Closure Order By 7pm an attempt at Islamization – Nnamdi Abana

Nigeria seems to be undergoing a metamorphosis. The Islamization of Nigeria and the compelling drive for Nigerians of different religious leaning to conform to the dictates of Islamic tenets is now being impudently entrenched.

The world will not easily forget the gruesome execution of Deborah who was killed for committing blasphemy, nothing happened to the culprits and that inspired the incident that happened in Abuja where another Nigerian was executed for the same offence and nothing happened.

We only hear commentaries about how such offenders would be arrested but eventually, nothing happens and everyone moves on.

So, executions for blasphemy have been normalised in Nigeria which is a secular state; worse still most presidential aspirants are mute on this subject. One of them withdrew his tweet while blaming his “overzealous staff” for sending out the tweet on his behalf.

We all need to wake up and exercise our rights as Nigerians. Docility will only mortgage our future and freedoms.

We are also not unaware of the recent Supreme Court judgement which legalised and institutionalised the wearing of a Hijab by students in public institutions in spite of the convergence of students from different religious persuasion or backgrounds. The judgement was not just obnoxious but a judgement from unjust judges.

Then again, we need to know the religious background of the Supreme Court justices. The judgement elicited protestations from a Christian lawyer and a traditionalist lawyer who decided to jettison the conventional wig and gown to appear in court in their religious regalia.

Such open protests are good for a nation as ours to compel sensitive institutions to abstain from abusing the constitutional powers that they exercise.

Worse still, the Islamization project is now being rubbed in with impudence. Today, we’ve just been informed that Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory Ministry just banned the sale and consumption of alcohol in gardens, parks and other public places and they have also set the closing time for such public places to be 7:00 pm.

It is sad to note, that the mischief inherent in the announcement is that they failed to appropriately use the right term by stating that “THE MINISTER of the FCT has banned the sale of alcohol…”, they chose the expression “FCT Ministry. The Ministry takes instruction from the FCT Minister and such instructions could emanate from the President, who knows?

In all these, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) seems to be fast asleep, and the Conference of Nigerian Bishops, PFN and other religious groups seem to be oblivious of a religious agenda that is incrementally being executed.

This is the time for Christians, CAN, Christian organisations and other religious groups to assert the neutrality that the nation has maintained over the years on religion due to the plurality of the Nigerian religious background.

Nigeria is and remains a secular state and attempts to convert the country into a religious state should be vehemently opposed. Faith is by conviction and not by compulsion