US Lacks Authority To Ask Northern States To Drop Sharia Law-Daniel Bwala

President Bola Tinubu’s Adviser on Policy Communication, Mr Daniel Bwala has submitted that the United States of America lacks the authority to ask states in the north to drop the sharia law.

Reacting to suggestions by some United States lawmakers that the country should abolish the sharia law, Bwala said the US has no legal or moral authority to dictate constitutional changes to a sovereign nation.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that Mr Daniel Bwala ,who said this during an interview with Arise Television on Thursday, noted that any attempt by a foreign country to instruct Nigeria on constitutional matters would amount to an attack on its sovereignty.

Asked whether the US government has the right to make Nigeria end the Sharia law in northern states or amend its constitution ‘They don’t have the locus’ he quipped. 

‘In doing that, it’ll amount to infringing on the territorial integrity and territorial right of a country.

Even the threat of possible military invasion is not consistent with the US convention, because there are only three conditions upon which another country can invade militarily. Either you get invited by that country, or you are at war with that country, or the United Nations asks you to be in that country’ he added.

He also noted that the Sharia law, currently operational in 12 northern states, is not a federal policy but a state-level legal framework permitted under Nigeria’s federal structure.

‘Sharia law is not a national law. We also practice federal system of government, although their own is more advanced’ he said.

Mr Daniel Bwala added that Nigeria’s constitution is not subject to foreign approval.

‘We differ with them on this idea of amending our constitution. Nigeria is a sovereign state, has never been colonized by America anywhere and we are not Venezuela’ he said-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08035023079, 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you