Dakar, Senegal — The Catholic Church in Nigeria
plans a legal challenge to the Islamic Sharia law introduced by
some States in the north of the country, the Archbishop of Abuja,
Mgr John Onaiyekan said in Dakar Tuesday.
"Not only is it unconstitutional for the Sharia to be
imposed on Nigeria as a Federation, it is unconstitutional for it
to be imposed on any particular State or States, even if the
State were 100 percent Muslim," the prelate told PANA in the
Senegalese capital.
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