The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has reaffirmed its
preference for a presidential candidate from the Yoruba Muslim stock.
The group warned that any party that picks a Yoruba
Christian as its 2023 candidate should forget Muslim votes.
“No political party should tell us that they cannot find
competent Yoruba Muslims”, Professor Ishaq Akintola said on Monday.
A statement by the Director said no Yoruba Muslim ever
occupied the State House either as president or vice president since 1960.
MURIC advised presidential aspirants and parties mapping out
strategies for the next general elections to heed its call.
Akintola condemned the “stigmatisation galore” for Yoruba
Muslims in Nigeria since independence.
The organization claimed they are denied almost all civil
liberties, including admission into schools.
Akintola alleged many cannot get international passports,
driving licences and voter registration cards because they are asked to remove
their hijab for capturing.
He said schools humiliate hijab-wearing female Muslim
students while the courts in the South-West are littered with litigations “on
this ignoble stereotyping”.
“It is our belief that Yoruba Muslims need federal might to
eliminate or at least scale down the tornado of oppression and the Tsunami of
anti-Muslim sentiment.
“Only a Yoruba Muslim president who knows what has been
happening can do this effectively. Who feels it, knows it”, Akintola insisted.
MURIC added that its position was not a categorical
rejection of a Christian presidential candidate in 2023.
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