MURIC Tackles Osinbajo Over Presidential Ambition, Insists On Yoruba Muslim

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has tackled Vice President Yemi Osinbajo over his alleged presidential ambition.

Stories had it that Osinbajo would declare his intentions to run for the Presidency after the All Progressives Congress, APC, Nationwide Conference.

However, the Vice President, by means of his Media Aide, Laolu Akande, denied such claims.

Reacting, MURIC knowledgeable Osinbajo that it was the flip of Muslims within the South West to rule Nigeria and never Christians.

MURIC’s Director, Ishaq Akintola, defined that three Yoruba Christians have occupied the presidency, however no single Yoruba Muslim has been both navy Head of State, President or Vice President.

In an announcement he signed and forwarded to NAIJALOADED, Akintola famous that this issue has given Yoruba Christians each political and financial edges and subjected Yoruba Muslims to political marginalisation, social segregation and gross financial drawback resulting in abject penury amongst Muslims within the sub-region.

The assertion reads:

“The Nigerian Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has denied planning to declare his presidential ambition. The Vice President spoke by means of his spokesman, Laolu Akande at the moment, Monday, seventh February, 2022.

“Nonetheless (the denial however), we’ll just like the Vice President to know that it isn’t his flip but. Neither is it the flip of some other Christian from the South West. It’s because three Yoruba Christians (Obasanjo, Shonekan and Osinbajo himself) have occupied the presidency whereas no single Yoruba Muslim has been both navy head of state, president or vp of Nigeria.

“This issue has given Yoruba Christians each political and financial edges and subjected Yoruba Muslims to political marginalisation, social segregation and gross financial drawback resulting in abject penury amongst Muslims within the sub-region.

“Muslims within the South West will not stay onlookers in issues affecting our welfare and our collective future. Any Yoruba Christian or Muslim candidate searching for workplace must seek the advice of the Muslim neighborhood. No one shall be allowed to take Muslims for a experience and get elected on a platter of gold.

“All different issues being equal, we might not have frightened in any respect and we might not have introduced the spiritual issue to the fore in Nigeria’s march in direction of 2023. However the brazen effrontery and undisguised persecution of Yoruba Muslims coupled with the felony silence from those who matter amongst Christian leaders, civil society and Yoruba socio-cultural teams have made our stand obligatory. Our stand is knowledgeable by an pressing must liberate Yoruba Muslims from the shackles of spiritual persecution.

“The final time we checked, the Vice President has not deemed it essential to examine the excesses of his fellow Yoruba Christians who’re oppressing Yoruba Muslim girls in authorities workplaces and persecuting feminine Muslim college students in South West colleges. Neither has he uttered a single phrase of condemnation or sympathy on the matter. What then would be the destiny of Yoruba Muslims when Osinbajo turns into the president of Nigeria. Christians within the South West will garner extra braveness. They’ll out-herod Herod and for Muslims, it is going to be from the frying pan into the fireplace.

“Even Profesor Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo can not declare that he’s unaware of the sufferings of Muslim girls and feminine Muslim college students within the South West whose circumstances could be in comparison with that of blacks in apartheid South Africa. Maybe his silence could be attributable to his place as a pastor of the Redeemed Church whose declared goal is to plant church buildings inside a couple of meters of one another all through Nigeria. The place to begin will be the compelled conversion of Muslim college students in Yorubaland. This after all is not going to be a brand new improvement within the sub-region. It occurred to our mother and father and grandparents.

“We urge the Vice President to come back out overtly and put an finish to the state of confusion. For the avoidance of doubts, we’ve got nothing private towards Vice President Osinbajo. In precise truth, we’re amongst his secret admirers and this may be traced to his loyalty to the President Muhammadu Buhari significantly due to the best way he stood by the latter in his making an attempt instances.

“It might have been a horse of one other color if no Yoruba Muslim has proven any curiosity within the presidency come 2023. However thankfully the crème de la crème amongst Yoruba Muslim politicians have indicated curiosity. Vice President Osinbajo is, subsequently, suggested to permit sleeping canine to lie.”