The NDI Igbo Worldwide Union has warned the Federal Government and the National Assembly that Nigeria risks disintegration if it continues to operate what it described as a “dual legal system” of Sharia and common law.
In a press statement signed by its President, Benjamin I. Nwankwo, and Secretary, Chief Charles Edemuzo, the union said the country was facing its “ultimate test” over the continued coexistence of Sharia criminal law and the constitutional common law framework.
“The time for ambiguity is over,” the statement read. “Nigeria cannot continue to pretend that a common law society can function alongside a full-blown religious legal system. Two legal codes cannot coexist in a serious, modern nation.”