Sharia limited to inheritance, marriage – Buhari

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Sharia law is limited to inheritance and marriage.
“Sharia is limited to inheritance, marriage etc. If anyone wants to change sharia they have to change the constitution: #Buhari at #CHAfrica”
The former Head of State who declared himself fit and healthy to lead the country if elected, also said that he takes full responsibility for whatever happened under his watch as a military dictator in Nigeria between 1983 to 1985. This was part of his address at the Chatham House, London during his speech on Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Africa: Nigeria’s Transition.

Many electorates have expressed fear that Buhari, if elected, might implement full sharia law in all the states in Nigeria, especially, following media reports in 2001, that he will not stop the agitation for total implementation of the sharia in the country.

“This is the sacrifice the Moslems will have to make and persuade their fellow country men who are non-Moslems to accept. I will continue to show openly and inside me, the total commitment to Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria, God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country,” he said in 2001 at National Convention of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria (SCSN), held at the Arewa House, Kaduna.