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2023: A Christian From Southwest Can Never Rule Nigeria, Next President Must Be A Yoruba Muslim – MURIC Declears

Elizabeth by Elizabeth
June 7, 2021
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2023: A Christian From Southwest Can Never Rule Nigeria, Next President Must Be A Yoruba Muslim – MURIC Declears
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2023 is gradually coming close and the preparation for who will succeed president Buhari is high.

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It’s no lonever news that former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu is also eyeing the position.

However, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has stated that no Christian candidate from the South-west will win the Presidential election in 2023.

The group’s director, Ishaq Akintola, stated this in a statement issued to newsmen on Monday.

Ishaq clarified an earlier stance by the group which stated that Nigeria’s next president must be a Yoruba Muslim.

He noted that this demand is hinged on the condition that the political parties zone the presidency to the South West.

According to him, a Christian candidate from another zone will not be opposed but one from the Southwest will definitely be opposed.

Ishaq explained that the group had taken this stance due to the marginalisation of the Muslims in the southwest.

He alleged that Christians dominate the education sector in the South West which has resulted in the harassment, frustration and oppression of Muslim students.

Ishaq also alleged that Christians control the civil service and have been persistently intolerant of Muslims who they victimise at any given opportunity.

The statement read, “Some stakeholders have misunderstood our statement concerning our demand for a Yoruba Muslim president come 2023. They wrongly assume that we do not want a Christian president at all. That is not correct. We have therefore seen the need for us to clarify our statement

“Our true position is this. We want a Yoruba Muslim to be the next president if the presidency is zoned to the region by political parties. So there is a proviso and the keyword is ‘if’.

“MURIC is not a fanatical group. We do not have a problem with a Christian president. This is a democracy and Nigeria is a multi-religious nation. So we are not opposed to a Christian emerging as president at any time so long as he respects the rights of Muslims.

“Our grouse is with the system in the South West. It is an open secret that Christians dominate the education sector in the South West.

“Although Muslims form a majority of the mainstream population, the Christians constitute the majority among the elite class. That is why the civil service is fully in the hands of the Christians while the Muslims are an overwhelming majority among the artisans and traders in Yorubaland.

“This situation can be traced back to the British Christian colonial masters who manipulated the education system in favour of Christianity.

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“Now we all know that artisans and traders do not make policies and decisions. It is civil servants who control the destiny of the citizens.

“The school teachers in the South West also dance to the tune of the influential Christian leaders in the civil service to harass, frustrate and oppress Muslim children in the schools.

“The Christians who control the civil service are so intolerant and self-centred that they victimise Muslims at any given opportunity. They are not willing to share the paraphernalia of political power, administrative influence and citizens’ rights and privileges with their Muslim neighbours.

“This explains the cassu belli for MURIC’s demand for the emergence of a Yoruba Muslim president at the centre. Successive Federal administrations have paid no attention to the complaints of marginalisation and persecution lodged by Yoruba Muslims.

“It is our belief that a Yoruba Muslim president will hear the cries of Yoruba Muslims because he will know and understand the setting whereas a Christian president emerging from the same South West will make matters worse for Yoruba Muslims.

“For the avoidance of doubts, therefore, MURIC is not saying Christians cannot be president in 2023. We are only wary about such a Christian candidate being a Yoruba. The reason for our opposition to the emergence of a Yoruba Muslim president is two-fold.

“One, Yoruba Christians do not give their Muslim neighbours their Allah-given fundamental human rights. Examples abound in the way female Muslim children are persecuted in Yoruba schools, particularly over hijab and their refusal to allow their fellow Yoruba Muslims to apply civil Shariah which does not affect Christians in any way.

“We are reluctant to come under the presidency of people who do not respect our civil liberties.

“Two, Yoruba Christians have been military head of state and president (Mathew Olusegun Obasanjo, 1976 – 1979, 1999 – 2007), interim head of state (Earnest Shonekan, August 1993 – November 1993) and vice president (Professor Yemi Osinbajo, 2015 to date) but no single Yoruba Muslim has had the opportunity to taste power in the centre.

“Therefore, it will be unfair to give the slot of the presidency to a Yoruba Christian again if the post is zoned to the region. Democracy is about inclusion and equal opportunity. Yoruba Muslims are saying enough of marginalisation and exclusivism.

“We, therefore, reiterate our position: on Yoruba Muslim president we stand unless the presidency is not zoned to the South West.

“To give the position to a Yoruba Christian is to sentence Muslims in Yorubaland to a life of perpetual slavery. Our Christian neighbours are yet to learn the art of living and letting live.

“Therefore, our message to the political parties is this: any party that gives the presidential slot to a Christian candidate in the South West will lose woefully.

“Yoruba Muslims have woken up from their deep slumber. Just as Abraham Lincoln warned, ‘You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.’ A word is enough for the wise.”

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