MD Yusuf.

Their plan is obvious, to keep Malam El-Rufa’i in detention until after the ADC primaries, or even the general elections. It makes no sense for a Federal High Court to grant bail in the same case while a State High Court refuses to do so, without any tangible reason.

Till today, I no see the importance of this thing.🤦

No one serious is claiming Islam didn't exist in Hausa land before Dan Fodio. My precise argument is that his jihad consolidated and institutionalized Islamic scholarship, not that he invented Islam. Islam survives where it has strong scholarly infrastructure, and Borno had its own deep institutional roots. But here's what history consistently proves: Islam needs to be actively protected from corruption at the leadership level or risk mass apostasy and secularism, as we have seen today. Abu Bakr's R.A Ridda Wars are the earliest and clearest example. The moment the Prophet died, entire tribes began refusing zakat (Zakat!!! It's not like they were mixing shirk with Islam) and yet Abu Bakr R.A fought them because corrupted and compromised leadership, or the absence of it, causes religious practice to hollow out rapidly. The Umayyads prioritized Arab nationalism over Islam. See how it ended. The same with the Abbasids, and most particularly the Ottomans, where the ruling class became increasingly secular and disconnected from Islamic scholarship. Look at how rapidly they descended into chaos. Look at Egypt and what has happened there. All of these are sufficient examples of what happens when Islam becomes increasingly nominal generationally. No one is saying the Hausa kingdoms Dan Fodio challenged were anti-Islam. They were Muslim leaders who had allowed syncretism to creep into governance and practice, and they hardly seemed able to control it in any form. Do you genuinely think their Islam would have sustained to the next generation, let alone reached us in the dimensions and spread that it has today? Do you think the path the Hausa leadership pre-Fodio was on would have led to any of that? Lol. Reducing Dan Fodio's contribution to nothing because pre-existing Islam existed is the same error as reducing it to everything. He was one significant pillar at a critical moment of drift. And if you cannot look at Muslim society in the North today and see how it is rapidly deteriorating as a living example of exactly what I am saying, then quite frankly, you are completely blind to the truth.

This is Justice Dharius Khobo who has adjourned Mallam Nasir El Rufai's bail hearing till June. Let's make him popular.

Apc for bauchi Gubernatorial Candidates is a 3-horse race between Bala Wunti, Shehu Buba and MA Abubakar. 👀