2023: Why Yoruba Muslims Will Not Vote For Christian Presidential Candidates – MURIC

• MURIC has disclosed the reason Yoruba Muslims will not vote for Christian presidential candidates in 2023.

 

EKOHOTBLOG reports that the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has again reaffirmed its preference for a presidential candidate from the Yoruba Muslim stock, saying any party that picks a Yoruba Christian as its 2023 candidate should forget Muslim votes.

MURIC made this known via a statement by its Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Monday.

 

Akintola stated that “No political party should tell us that they cannot find competent Yoruba Muslims,” adding that no Yoruba Muslim ever occupied the State House either as president or vice president since 1960.

MURIC further enjoined 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.

He claimed they are denied almost all civil liberties, including admission into schools, alleging many cannot get international passports, driving licences and voter registration cards because they are asked to remove their hijab for capturing.

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Akintola added that 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,” The MURIC Director said.

He, therefore, stated that the position of MURIC was not a categorical rejection of a Christian presidential candidate in 2023.

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