A group under the aegis of Muslim Rights Concern( MURIC), Monday said that Nigeria needed a Yoruba Muslim President.
According to a statement by the Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, which was made available to media houses, the organization claimed that no Yoruba Muslim had ever occupied the State House either as president or vice president since 1960.
Another reason given by the group was that they have been denied almost all civil liberties, including admission into schools and that Yoruba Muslims need federal might to eliminate or at least scale down the tornado of oppression and the Tsunami of anti- Muslim sentiment.
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”.
MURIC advised presidential aspirants and parties mapping out strategies for the next general elections to heed its call.
It condemned the “stigmatisation galore” for Yoruba Muslims in Nigeria since independence.
The group alleged many cannot get international passports, driving licences and voter registration cards because they are asked to remove their hijab for capturing.
It stated that schools humiliate hijab-wearing female Muslim students while the courts in the South-West are littered with litigations “on this ignoble stereotyping”.
“Only a Yoruba Muslim president who knows what has been happening can do this effectively. Who feels it, knows it”, the group insisted.
