The Muslim Rights Concern(MURIC )has actually dealt with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo over his alleged presidential ambition.

Reports had it that Osinbajo would state his objectives to run for the Presidency after the All Progressives Congress, APC, National Convention.

But, the Vice President, through his Media Aide, Laolu Akande, rejected such claims.

Reacting, MURIC notified Osinbajo that it was the turn of Muslims in the South West to rule Nigeria and not Christians.

MURIC’s Director, Ishaq Akintola, described that three Yoruba Christians have actually occupied the presidency, but no single Yoruba Muslim has been either military Head of State, President or Vice President.

In a statement he signed and forwarded to DAILY POST, Akintola kept in mind that this element has offered Yoruba Christians both financial and political edges and subjected Yoruba Muslims to political marginalisation, social partition and gross financial drawback leading to abject penury amongst Muslims in the sub-region.

The declaration reads: “The Nigerian Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has denied planning to declare his presidential aspiration. The Vice President spoke through his spokesman, Laolu Akande today, Monday, 7th February, 2022.

“Nonetheless (the denial notwithstanding), we will like the Vice President to know that it is not his turn. Neither is it the turn of any other Christian from the South West. This is because 3 Yoruba Christians (Obasanjo, Shonekan and Osinbajo himself) have inhabited the presidency whereas no single Yoruba Muslim has actually been either military head of vice, president or state president of Nigeria.

“This aspect has actually provided Yoruba Christians both financial and political edges and subjected Yoruba Muslims to political marginalisation, social partition and gross financial downside leading to abject penury among Muslims in the sub-region.

“Muslims in the South West will no longer remain onlookers in matters impacting our well-being and our collective fate. Any Yoruba Christian or Muslim prospect looking for workplace will have to speak with the Muslim community. Nobody will be permitted to take Muslims for a ride and get chosen on a plate of gold.

“All other things being equal, we would not have fretted at all and we would not have actually brought the religious factor to the fore in Nigeria’s march towards 2023. However the brazen effrontery and undisguised persecution of Yoruba Muslims paired with the criminal silence from those that matter among Christian leaders, civil society and Yoruba socio-cultural groups have actually made our stand required. Our stand is informed by an immediate need to free Yoruba Muslims from the shackles of religious persecution.

“The last time we checked, the Vice President has not considered it needed to examine the excesses of his fellow Yoruba Christians who are oppressing Yoruba Muslim females in government workplaces and persecuting female Muslim students in South West schools. Neither has he uttered a single word of condemnation or compassion on the matter. When Osinbajo becomes the president of Nigeria, what then will be the fate of Yoruba Muslims. Christians in the South West will gather more courage. They will out-herod Herod and for Muslims, it will be from the frying pan into the fire.

“Even Profesor Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo can not declare that he is unaware of the sufferings of Muslim females and female Muslim students in the South West whose conditions can be compared to that of blacks in apartheid South Africa. Perhaps his silence can be due to his position as a pastor of the Redeemed Church whose declared objective is to plant churches within a few meters of each other throughout Nigeria. The beginning point might be the forced conversion of Muslim trainees in Yorubaland. This obviously will not be a brand-new development in the sub-region. It took place to our grandparents and moms and dads.

“We urge the Vice President to come out honestly and put an end to the state of confusion. For the avoidance of doubts, we have absolutely nothing personal against Vice President Osinbajo. In real reality, we are among his secret admirers and this can be traced to his commitment to the President Muhammadu Buhari especially because of the method he stood by the latter in his trying times.

“It would have been a horse of another colour if no Yoruba Muslim has revealed any interest in the presidency come 2023. Thankfully the crème de la crème among Yoruba Muslim politicians have shown interest. Vice President Osinbajo is, for that reason, encouraged to enable sleeping canines to lie.”