Because voting, you see, is governing by manmade law, rather than by the law of Allah. “Gunmen kill 15 in Nigeria during tense election,” by Tim Cocks and Bate Felix, Reuters, March 28, 2015:
ABUJA (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least 15 people including an opposition politician near polling stations in northeast Nigeria on Saturday, casting an ominous shadow over the closest electoral contest since the end of military rule in 1999.
The tense race pits President Goodluck Jonathan against former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari for the favor of an electorate divided along a complex mix of ethnic, regional and in some cases religious lines.
The poll is seen as the first election in Africa’s most populous nation in which an opposition candidate has a serious chance of unseating the incumbent, and widespread fears it could trigger violence are already becoming reality.
Islamist Boko Haram insurgents launched several attacks on voters in the northeast, killing three in Yobe state and three more in Gombe state, police said.
Shortly afterwards, at least eight people, including the opposition parliamentary candidate for Dukku in Gombe, were killed by unidentified gunmen, a spokesman for Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) said.
Boko Haram militants, who are trying to revive a medieval Islamic caliphate in religiously-mixed Nigeria, reject democracy, and their leader Abubakar Shekau has threatened to kill Nigerians who go to vote.
A string of victories against the militants by Nigeria and neighbors Chad, Cameroon and Niger has reclaimed much of the territory the Islamists controlled earlier this year, but they retain the ability to mount deadly attacks on civilians….
voytech says
I don’t understand how this lunatic is still alive . Smh
Champ says
Same thought …why isn’t he dead? Good grief!
Jay Boo says
Ji Ji Hard or Ji Ji Easy,
Boko LoKo’s are always sleazy.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Seriously: This lunatic badly requires a straitjacket and a syringe full of Haldol.
I and all here doubtless have read that the jihadis all take drugs (speed, etc.) in battle. This specimen appears to have branched out. Every time I’ve seen him, it’s the same: Eyes you could knock off with a stick (exopthalmia), bulging carotid, rapid-fire ‘speech’, etc.
Islam: The religion you have to be high to believe in.
particolor says
He said He would also kill those who didn’t vote after a Long suck on His ice pipe !! 🙁