The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has congratulated governors-elect in the South West region of the country and charged them to work towards raising the standard of living in the region.
MURIC also called on the governors-elect to run truly participatory administrations by appointing both Christians and Muslims into their cabinets.
The director of MURIC, Prof. Ishaq Akintola in a statement on Thursday called on them to make the people’s welfare the focus of their administration.
“We charge Christian governors to respect the dignity of their Muslim subjects and accord them the right to their Muslim identity without let or hindrance. In return, we appeal to the teeming Muslim population in the sub-region, the Imams and Islamic scholars to cooperate with the governors and to be law-abiding.
“Whether we like it or not, religion plays a central role in the lives of Nigerians and the average Yoruba person is particularly known to be deeply religious. In order to ensure peaceful and harmonious co-existence, therefore, we advise the new governors-elect in the sub-region to evolve inclusive regimes when they appoint their chiefs of staff, secretary to the state governments, commissioners and board chairmen.
“The myth of a political party being an Islamic party has been broken with the emergence of the present set of governors in Yorubaland. Those who claim that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is an Islamic party have been proved wrong. Babajide Sanwo-Olu who emerged in Lagos, Dapo Abiodun in Ogun, Rotimi Akeredolu in Ondo and Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti are all Christians.
“The only APC governor who is a Muslim in the sub-region is Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State. So where is the Islamism in APC? That claim is therefore false and baseless. It was concocted by merchants of false propaganda to support their unfounded allegation of Islamisation of Nigeria which was levelled at President Muhammadu Buhari.
While calling attention to the new political reality in Yorubaland when the newly elected governors are sworn in on May 29, 2019, he disclosed that there will be five Christian governors and only one Muslim governor in the sub-region.
According to him there will be three Christian deputy governors and three Muslim governors.
It charged the governors to respect the civil liberties of the citizenry, particularly their Muslim subjects who were clamouring for the recognition of their Allah-given fundamental human rights.
Source: Leadership Newspapers
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