POLITICS, RELIGION AND 2015 IN NIGERIA

The encompassion of religion to the political year of 2015 emerges as a result of the trend at which the country political value is degrading understanding the political will and drives our of our politicians. How? There have always been rejection abnegating the assertion of tagging the insurgence which has been a threat to the peace of Nigeria since 2009, as an islamic group rather believing it is a political instrument. Meanwhile, the two gargatians political parties contesting for the seat of president have justified the generalization of marrying religion with politics and year 2015 in Nigeria.

However, controversy has trailed the generalization that inculcates Religion with the political year of 2015, and the hazardous prediction the political mal-practises beget considering the antecedents and the incessant unrest experiencing in the country all believed to have been politically aborigine. Religion has always been underscore by many Nigerians as a piloting agents of the ill-fated prediction of the dis-integration of Nigeria by 2015; believing Nigeria is a free-religious crisis nation irrespective of multi-religious state of the nation. However, politics has received widespread nomenclature as Bane to the development of Nigeria despite the ample human and natural resources the country is blessed with. Why politics? We need to know the political system of the country is malfunctioning and berating the political value, which inturns has a great reflection in the governance of Nigeria from the colonial rule to post colonial era which has put the country behind other contemporaries of fast developing nations. Whereas Nigeria is tagged with 2015, hence Nigeria is not the only nation that would experience the year. But why Nigeria and how?

Accusation was made sometimes ago, declaring the APC party as an Islamic party with the hidden motives of islamizing the nation. This statement was considered by many Nigerians as a mere war of words all aimed at condemning the party by other contemporaries however, if we could eradicate every elements of bigotry and trace the whole stories from the initial prediction of dis-integration in 2015, lax political value and the embodiment of religion to the political year of 2015 up to the current security threat of Nigeria, one would acknowledge emphasis on the religious criteria to the political year of 2015. From the history of the emergence of the insurgence to the operating stand of today, to opening confession made by a member of the sponsors of the sect, relegating religion is an abnormal understanding and timid tackling issues of Nigeria crisis.

Jama'atul al-sunnah liddalawatu wal-jihad was established in 1995 meaning people committed to the propagation and teachings of the prophet through proselytism for jihad. The group was hijacked by some fanatics politician, supporting the sect monetary challenges to achieve two goals: The initial proselytism of jihad which is to enforce islam and sharia laws and it's doctrine on Nigerians and Nigeria. This is evidenced through the terrorism fight. Virtually half nations of the world is fighting terrorism visioning at fighting for Allah and Jihad. The second goal is to use the social unrest to condemn the administration of the present government and achieve the political ambition of attaining the seat of governance and controlling the political system of the country. Moreover, the present administration likewise is not audacious enough to fight the battle at all cost, is also putting into consideration the 2015 election at the favourable side.

Islamic banking which was moved to enhance the financial sector of the economy but was later counter-moved by eminent associations and the National Assembly; would have been a perfect arrow to enforce Islam on Nigeria by the fanatics behind the economy of Nigeria. We need not to forget Sanusi Lamido was also accused to be among the sponsor, and APC party account is use to finance the insurgents which he knows about.

Religion is becoming a giant stride in virtually every part of the country's activities. More so, fighting terrorism by the military and the country at large has been manipulated by religious beliefs and fanatism. Not too long when the sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Abubakar Sa'ad 111 made a derogatory and ungrateful statement to the military in the congregation of muslims in Kaduna, accusing them of planning to end Islam in the nation all in the name of fighting terrorism. Analytically, the man has demoralize the fighting spirit of the military and ensued bigotry instinct to the situation of the country. Meanwhile religious fanatics and political minded people with self consideration is inflicting almost every parts and sectors of the country; economy, military, politics, religion and socio-cultural to mention but few. In fact the genesis of religious crisis is never isolated from political offices since the colonial rule to post colonial era. Some tribes depend largely on the government for sustenance, so if the power is lost, religion crisis is used to bargain.

EDITED BY: Fatai4change