The group claimed that voting a Yoruba Christian in the next presidential election would amount to sentencing Muslims in the South West region to “perpetual slavery.
Professor Ishaq Akintola, a self-proclaimed human rights activist and leader of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), made the claim in a statement on Monday.
Akintola emphatically warned that any political party that fields a Yoruba Christian in 2023 would “lose woefully”.
He said while Muslims “form a majority of the mainstream population [in the South West], the Christians constitute the majority among the elite class” adding that, “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.”
Akintola’s words: “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.
