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The vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has debunked insinuations that the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), has a plan to Islamise the country.

Osinbajo, who met with professionals in an interactive session in Warri, said Buhari had refused to give in to pressure to get Nigeria into the Organisation of Islamic Countries between 1984 and 1985 when he was Head of State.

A statement on Thursday quoted the senior Advocate of Nigeria as saying that it was Buharis successor, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, that enlisted Nigeria into IOC through military fiat in 1986.

Apart from Babangida, he pointed out that the only other Nigerian head of state that had attended the IOC summit was President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party.

The APC vice-presidential candidate said those accusing Buhari of being a Muslim fundamentalist and campaigner of Islamisation of Nigeria were distorting history.

Osinbajo said, Throughout his period as military head of state, Buhari was under intense pressure to drag Nigeria into the IOC, but he never yielded because he respects Nigeria as a secular state in line with the constitution. Besides his cook and driver are Christians

When Gen. Babangida eventually dragged Nigeria into IOC, none of the successors ever attended any of its meeting because they know to Islamise Nigeria is very difficult as you need to first get the constitution amended. That process, you know, is almost impossible.

But it is on record that in 2013, President Jonathan, undermining the constitutional limitation, ensured that Nigeria attended an IOC meeting.

Osinbajo also visited the Chief Tuesday Onoge-led faction of the Urhobo Progress Union, where he talked on the imperative for men of integrity to lead Nigeria.

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