Nigeria: Who Killed Sheikh Jafar Adam Before The Elections?

Was it a coincidence or a plot masterminded by those who wanted to silence any opposition to the ruling party?

The eye witnesses reported that the Saudi-educated cleric was shot five times at close range right inside the Dorayi Central Mosque in Kano whilst he was leading the morning prayers. And he died of the bullet wounds before reaching hospital. Sheikh Jafar Adam and the assistants have been buried in accordance with Islamic rites in the same day. But the populace of the most Islamic state in Nigeria are afraid of the grave consequences.

Gunmen storming mosques in Iraq is daily news on the CNN, but shocking to the 55 million Muslim population in Nigeria and the consequences could be adverse to the peaceful transfer of power from the current civilian administration to another.

The government has failed woefully to protect lives and properties in both the Northern and South regions of Nigeria.

President Olusegun Obasanjo is more interested in using the power of incumbency to keep his ruling party, the so-called Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in power than addressing the critical state of insecurity in Nigeria. And over 10,000 people have lost their precious lives in extra-judicial killings and assassinations since President Obasanjo was sworn in on May 29, 1999, to date. His tenure has become the bloodiest in the history of Nigeria since the First Republic before the Nigerian civil war.

Most expatriates have fled the Niger Delta region to escape from being attacked and kidnapped by the ruthless militants and brigands on rampage in the Niger Delta.

The poor and powerless masses are caught between the Devil and the deep blue sea as the opposing political contestants engage in their La Danse Macabre of President Obasanjo's "do or die" political warfare.

The assassination of Sheikh Jafar Adam is a bad omen for the State legislative and governorship polls on Saturday April 14, and the presidential and national assembly elections on April 21.