By Ahmad Deedat Zakari
The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, commends the North for shifting the presidency to the Southern region of the country
MURIC disclosed this in a press statement signed by its Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Friday.
This is coming after a Yoruba Muslim and southerner, Bola Ahmad Tinubu, was declared winner of the February presidential election.
According to the group, they are justified in their confidence and the trust they have in the North. He stated that they were particularly happy because the victory put the naysayers to shame.
“MURIC, in particular, was derided by non-Muslims in the South. We were called slaves of the North. But we stood our ground. We insisted that we trusted the North, particularly on the basis of understandings reached and pledges made at various Islamic fora on MURIC’s avowed project for the emergence of a Yoruba Muslim president.” He said
He further added that it is the effort and votes of Northern electorates that win the election for the southern Muslim.
He said, ” The outcome of the presidential election showed that Northern votes won the election for Tinubu. The Northern figure almost doubled what he scored in the South. It showed that Northerners stood by their words. They walked their talks. They took the path of honour and nobility. They abandoned a Northern Fulani candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and voted for a Southern Yoruba Muslim candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. We doff our hats for the North. We salute integrity. The North is a reliable friend by all standards. The region stood behind Tinubu, a Southern Muslim, like the Rock of Gibraltar.”
Professor Akintola added that the outcome of the election had shattered many stereotypes of Southern Christians and the lies they peddle against the North.