Buhari scores high against Obama's same sex marriage
July 22 2015 By Abi Giwa

A replay of an equivalent of Haile Selassie's 1936 message to the League of Nations, over the condemnation of the use of chemical weapons against his people by Italy, has evolved. It is President Muhammed Buhari's response to President Barack Obama's request to him on the issue of same sex marriage.
Just like Selassie's scored high in his condemnation of Italy at the League of Nations over the attack on his people, Buhari's score among Nigerians everywhere is high for rejecting the same sex marriage.
According to a news report monitored in Nigeria in connection to Buhari's visit to the United States, the Nigerian president is reported to have told President Obama that he is against the same sexual marriage policy and that his country, Nigeria, will have nothing to do with it.
Could Buhari's response to Obama on the same sex marriage issue be responsible for Obama's coldness toward Buhari's invitation for him to visit Nigeria, and upon which the American president is said to be non-committal, and the Nigerian president said he would still forward an invitation to the American president for the latter to consider a visit to Nigeria in his next African visit beginning this weekend?
CNN's Christiane Amanpour had asked Buhari in an interview on Tuesday evening if President Obama had changed his mind about not visiting Nigeria. President Buhari had told the interviewer without mincing words that President Obama had not expressed an interest to visit Nigeria, but that he still wished President Obama would consider visiting Nigeria and that he would send a formal invitation to follow up his verbal request.
Observers have said that Buhari's refusal to embrace Obama's same sex marriage dialogue has scored him high in Nigeria and among Nigerians in the diaspora. Buhari's position on the same sex marriage is also seen as capable of helping the country's situation against Boko Haram - the terror organization that have been killing Nigerians in hundreds after Buhari was sworn in as president.
With Buhari's well publicized stance against same sex marriage, many people believe that Boko Haram may be willing to dialogue with his government about the Chibok girls, but that the problem the country is likely to encounter is the impossibility of Boko Haram making the 200 girls available intact, because some of the girls may have been married away and others who may have been turned into bomb carriers may have been lost as a result.
However, Boko Haram's tough stance against Nigeria may become soft, because the rejection of the same sex marriage may be seen by Boko Haram as rejection of a culture and evil education it claims it is against. But one area the Nigerian president may find tough convincing Boko Haram is for it to abandon asking Nigeria to embrace Sharia.
For President Obama, it is a big disappointment to have got a rejection of the same sex marriage from President Buhari. This does not buoy well for his African visit to Kenya and Ethiopia, beginning this weekend. Kenyans have already made it clear to their government that same sex marriage as no go area. Both Kenya and Ethiopia have been at the receiving end of Al- Shabab's brutality over their relationship with the west and helping in the fight against terror.
The good relationship between the new government in Abuja and Washington, which began with Washington's help for Buhari's victory against Goodluck Jonathan may have run into a stormy weather. Many Nigerians believe that apart from Jonathan's lack of performance as a president, the west worked against his reelection because of the bill against same sex marriage, which he sighed into law.
With Buhari's popularity and his readiness to stand by the law against same sex marriage, he only requires tact and diplomacy to weather through the storm of corruption at home.
Just like Selassie's scored high in his condemnation of Italy at the League of Nations over the attack on his people, Buhari's score among Nigerians everywhere is high for rejecting the same sex marriage.
According to a news report monitored in Nigeria in connection to Buhari's visit to the United States, the Nigerian president is reported to have told President Obama that he is against the same sexual marriage policy and that his country, Nigeria, will have nothing to do with it.
Could Buhari's response to Obama on the same sex marriage issue be responsible for Obama's coldness toward Buhari's invitation for him to visit Nigeria, and upon which the American president is said to be non-committal, and the Nigerian president said he would still forward an invitation to the American president for the latter to consider a visit to Nigeria in his next African visit beginning this weekend?
CNN's Christiane Amanpour had asked Buhari in an interview on Tuesday evening if President Obama had changed his mind about not visiting Nigeria. President Buhari had told the interviewer without mincing words that President Obama had not expressed an interest to visit Nigeria, but that he still wished President Obama would consider visiting Nigeria and that he would send a formal invitation to follow up his verbal request.
Observers have said that Buhari's refusal to embrace Obama's same sex marriage dialogue has scored him high in Nigeria and among Nigerians in the diaspora. Buhari's position on the same sex marriage is also seen as capable of helping the country's situation against Boko Haram - the terror organization that have been killing Nigerians in hundreds after Buhari was sworn in as president.
With Buhari's well publicized stance against same sex marriage, many people believe that Boko Haram may be willing to dialogue with his government about the Chibok girls, but that the problem the country is likely to encounter is the impossibility of Boko Haram making the 200 girls available intact, because some of the girls may have been married away and others who may have been turned into bomb carriers may have been lost as a result.
However, Boko Haram's tough stance against Nigeria may become soft, because the rejection of the same sex marriage may be seen by Boko Haram as rejection of a culture and evil education it claims it is against. But one area the Nigerian president may find tough convincing Boko Haram is for it to abandon asking Nigeria to embrace Sharia.
For President Obama, it is a big disappointment to have got a rejection of the same sex marriage from President Buhari. This does not buoy well for his African visit to Kenya and Ethiopia, beginning this weekend. Kenyans have already made it clear to their government that same sex marriage as no go area. Both Kenya and Ethiopia have been at the receiving end of Al- Shabab's brutality over their relationship with the west and helping in the fight against terror.
The good relationship between the new government in Abuja and Washington, which began with Washington's help for Buhari's victory against Goodluck Jonathan may have run into a stormy weather. Many Nigerians believe that apart from Jonathan's lack of performance as a president, the west worked against his reelection because of the bill against same sex marriage, which he sighed into law.
With Buhari's popularity and his readiness to stand by the law against same sex marriage, he only requires tact and diplomacy to weather through the storm of corruption at home.