Politicians and Men of God

President Buhari with a group of religious leaders at a conference by the Interfaith Initiative for Peace, held in October 2018 with the theme “Religious Harmony in Nigeria: Towards the 2019 General Election”. October, 2018.TWITTER

Prominent Christian and Muslim clerics are intruding into Nigerian politics to buy votes for their preferred candidates, with dire implications for the stability of Nigeria’s democracy. our years ago, as an undergraduate at Ahmadu Bello University, one of the most transformative books that I read was Dr Yusufu Bala Usman’s masterpiece Manipulation of Religion in Nigeria: 1977-1987. The book is a collection of his letters, essays and lectures focusing on how re

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