The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has warned the
presidential flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar, against picking the governor of Rivers State, Nyesome Wike, as his
running mate.
According to MURIC, the Rivers State Governor is allegedly
one of the bigoted Christian governors who had been blacklisted by Nigerian
Muslims.
The Islamic organisation shared this view in a statement
signed and circulated by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The group said it had come to its knowledge that Wike is
among those being considered by the PDP and Atiku as a possible vice
presidential candidate and deemed it necessary to warn the party and its
flagbearer against such a move.
“Wike is an open enemy of Islam, a Muslim-hater primus inter
pareil and an unrepentant mosque destroyer,” the statement alleged.
“The extremist remarks of Wike are still on record. He
declared Rivers State a Christian State contrary to the constitution,” the
group’s statement reads in part.
The Islamic rights group expressed the fears that the Rivers
State Governor may create a worse situation and an unconducive environment for
Muslims in Nigeria if he becomes a vice president of the country.
According to the MURIC, “Wike should not be allowed to hold
any post at the federal level.”
The group claimed that “Wike hates the sight of mosques” and
is ready to use his office as the number two citizen of the country to destroy
all mosques in Nigeria.
MURIC said that the Governor “is intolerant, unpredictable
and violence-inclined” and does not have the trust of Muslims in Nigeria.
The rights group believes that Wike, who came second in the
PDP’s presidential primary election, “will definitely be a bad market for
Atiku.”
MURIC said that Wike does not have electoral value at the
national level and for that reason should be overlooked by the main opposition
party.
“We, therefore, advise Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to avoid Wike
by all means,” MURIC said.
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This man likes to be heard . We have muslims and mosques in River State...a kano Islamic clergy once say thesame in Kano state and nobofy arrested him....is it right for a state in Nigeria to be operating In Islamic law when Nigeria is a secular state...it is against the Constitution...
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