Head of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky has said Nigerians prefer Islamic form of administration if opportunity was made available to them.
He said Nigerians will jettison the neocolonial system of governance which has not move them forward ever.
The Islamic scholar and leader of Shiites, a sect that believes in mass protest accused the Nigerian government of infringing on his rights by banning him from going overseas for medical attention after he came out of long detention.
The Shiites leader who was believed to have ties with Iranian government spoke in a special live programme with Iranian Press TV which was broadcast in Kano on Wednesday evening.
El-Zakzaky regained freedom on July 18, 2021 after he was taken into detention in December, 2015 for alledgedly led his followers to assault the erstwhile Chief of Army Staff and now Ambassador to Benin Republic, Lt General Yusuf Buratai (rtd).
He believed that he was still being incarcerated, given that he wasn’t allowed to travel out with his wife for medical attention by the Nigerian government.
He revealed that Shiites movement was seeking an Islamic system of government to replace democracy being practised in Nigeria.
“I believe that if there will be a plebiscite in this country and people will be asked ‘which system would you like?’ Is it the status quo, which is inherited from the British colonialists or the Islamic system?
“I’m sure that the majority will choose the Islamic system. It will be the government of the people after all.
“However, this depends on the people being given the choice similar to what happened in Iran with the referendum that followed the victory of the country’s Islamic Revolution in 1979.
He said Nigerian government were afraid that the Islamic Movement in Nigeria will install Islamic system of government through a revolution the same way it happened in Iran some years ago, which they admitted secretly.
