Re: MURIC to Osinbajo: Why You Can’t Be President In 2023 —Adesanya-Davies tackles MURIC

Mass Action Joint Alliance (MAJA) Presidential Candidate, a presidential hopeful under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for 2023 election, Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies has tackled the MURIC’s on his Press release to Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on why he cannot be the president in 2023, adding that Muslims in Nigeria should only vote for a Muslim from South West. She asks, “What does all these mean, MURIC should go and study to be quiet for good.”

Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies opines something must be seriously wrong with the MURIC that needs urgent check up, upstairs. His confusion seems to me to be very consistent at all times, in all places and all the way, and should be tamed. That was how we’d read that, “The MURIC Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola tacked the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on its stand regarding the professorial appointment of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Ibrahim Ali Pantami”, saying “ASUU had not learnt its lesson.” This is supposedly a Professor in a Nigerian University who is supposed to be a member of ASUU, watching the matter and developments unfolding with keen interest, but rather, he was busy attacking his own Union in the name of religion as a busy body.

Again, the Director of MURIC, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, MURIC Rights Concern on Monday in a press release has said that, “Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, should forget his presidential ambition, stating that: “We will like the Vice President to know that it is not his turn yet. Neither is it the turn of any other Christian from the South West. This is because three Yoruba Christians (Obasanjo, Shonekan and Osinbajo himself) have occupied the presidency whereas no single Yoruba Muslim has been either military head of state, president or vice president of Nigeria. As such, “Vice President Osinbajo is therefore advised to allow sleeping dogs to lie.”

Further, according to him, “This factor has given Yoruba Christians both political and economic edges and subjected Yoruba Muslims to political marginalisation, social segregation and gross economic disadvantage leading to abject penury among Muslims in the sub-region.”

“Muslims in the South West will no longer remain onlookers in matters affecting our welfare and our collective destiny. Any Yoruba Christian or Muslim candidate seeking office will have to consult the Muslim community. Nobody will be allowed to take Muslims for a ride and get elected on a platter of gold.

Further, in his words, “All other things being equal, we would not have worried at all and we would not have brought the religious factor to the fore in Nigeria’s march towards 2023. But the brazen effrontery and undisguised persecution of Yoruba Muslims coupled with the criminal silence from those that matter among Christian leaders, civil society and Yoruba socio-cultural groups have made our stand necessary. Our stand is informed by an urgent need to liberate Yoruba Muslims from the shackles of religious persecution.

Adding that, “The last time he checked, the Vice President has not deemed it necessary to check the excesses of his fellow Yoruba Christians who are oppressing Yoruba Muslim women in government offices and persecuting female Muslim students in South West schools. Neither has he uttered a single word of condemnation or sympathy on the matter. What then will be the fate of Yoruba Muslims when Osinbajo becomes the president of Nigeria. Christians in the South West will garner more courage. They will out-herod Herod and for Muslims, it will be from the frying pan into the fire.

Thus, “We cannot compromise this principled stand and supporting any Christian from the South West for the 2023 presidency no matter his position or relationship with us will jeopardise this noble objective. We are being specific about the South West this time around. This means that any political party can pick a Christian as its presidential candidate from any other zone for 2023 so long as it is not from the South West.

Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies in her reply is asking the MURIC if that means the next president from the North which is majority Muslims must be a Christian!? How! Why? I wonder how you always reason mr. MURIC, why has Osinbajo become your enemy for supporting your brother Muhammadu Buhari in his trying times as you also claimed at the expense of the Christian community? What is your position in Yoruba land for heaven sake? Why do you always like to scatter rather than gather? Who has made you a judge over Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and his aspiration – whether he likes to declare for the position of President in 2023 or not! What is always eating you up please? People appreciate persons who mind their own businesses and not intruders. Are you a presidential aspirant or an ex-presidential candidate? Go pick up a nomination form from any party if you so wish to contest and stop your campaign of calumny.

As Adeniyi Adekanmi and others rightly said on their online comments to reply your statement: “This MURIC man always loves beating the drum of disunity. Has he forgotten that no Christian has ever rule this country from the North. To me, your professorship is questionable or how could a reasonable human goofed like this!”

Another person added, Oh! his religion has totally blinded him and blind folded his sense of judgement and he is totally blinded. How could a professor think like the street hawker, primordial and myopic. Personal interest above national interest! By the way, is MURIC the custodian of Yoruba votes? All this man is interested in inciting religious war among the Yorubas or what! Is a professor of Islamic studies that he is not to be more interested in peace if Islam is said to be a religion of peace rather than contention and war always! His job is always beating drums of discord between Christians and Muslims of every tribe in the nation. He should be answerable to the Nigerian government if I may advice Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies added, “Alas! The MURIC is simply beclouded and deluded with his style of fundamental and fanatical Islamic religion and Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo needs not answer him at all, since silence they say is the best answer for a fool.”