A group known as Coalition of Progressive Yoruba Islamic
Groups (COPYIG) has described Ishaq Akintola, director of Muslim Rights Concern
(MURIC), as a big threat to southern Nigeria.
Reacting to Akintola’s call for the rebranding of Amotekun,
a regional security outfit, COPYIG alleged that Akintola has an agenda to tear
the country apart.
The MURIC director had said Amotekun has a biblical origin.
He had also accused governors who floated the outfit of recruiting only
Christians into Amotekun which he described as a militia.
The Western Nigeria Security Network is code-named Amotekun,
Yoruba word for leopard.
Mukthar Okunade, national coordinator of the coalition, said
Akintola is promoting rebellion against Yoruba people.
“It is unfortunate that one Akintola who leads MURIC has
consistently fan embers of disunity in Yorubaland hiding under the guise of
Islam to set brothers against brothers, communities against communities and men
against women,” he said.
“Akintola has no followers. He is an extremist and a sadist.
He appears to have suicide instinct. We urge him not to attempt to drag the
entire Yoruba along on his pathway of mischief and treachery against the Yoruba
people.
“In his riotous mind, blind rage and in a show of complete
lack of wisdom, he claimed Amotekun is a Christian outfit. This shows how
shallow and irresponsible Akintola is.
“The head of Amotekun in Ogun state is a retired AIG,
Subair; the man in charge of Amotekun in Ondo state is Aliu Tijani, a retired
senior police officer, the person in charge of Amotekun in Ekiti State is Chief
Jinadu. Aare Ona Kakanfo Iba Gani Adams who has been supporting Amotekun is a
Muslim. The Alaafin Oyo who backs Amotekun is a Muslim. We caution Akintola to
halt is hatred for the Yoruba Nation.We urge him to learn to read books and
bail himself out of his state of psychological disorder.
“Akintola is a big threat to Southern Nigeria, especially
the Yoruba, Igbo and South South who owe the key to the liberation of Southern
Nigeria from Fulani stranglehold”
The coalition also called on the Lagos State University
(LASU) to sack Akintola, describing his ideas as “injurious to the search for
knowledge in any decent society”.
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