The Muslim Rights Concern has defined the announcement via way of means of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to contest the 2023 presidential election and prevail over President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) as “backstabbing”.
In a declaration on Tuesday signed via way of means of MURIC Director, Prof Ishaq Akintola, the organization additionally stated the announcement became basically evangelical and in consonance with the directive of the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
Akintola, in a statement titled Osinbajo declaration,, " RCCGisation of the polity – MURIC`, defined the announcement as “unethical and basically evangelical”.
“The fact that Tinubu declared on 22nd January 2022 when he met President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock makes Osinbajo’s declaration look like a stab in the back,” the statement read in part.
It added, “The Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday declared his intention to run for the post of president in the coming 2023 general elections. This declaration, to our mind, will not pass any ethical screening. It is purely evangelical.
“As a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Osinbajo is simply carrying out his own part of the RCCG instruction dished out a few weeks ago on the creation of a political department in all parts of Nigeria. We see Osinbajo as the arrowhead of the RCCGisation of the Nigerian polity. His declaration must therefore be seen as a demonstration of his own loyalty and obedience to the directive which came from the RCCG headquarters.
“But MURIC cannot keep quiet after Osinbajo’s declaration because it does not align with our agenda for the South West. We have never hidden this agenda from public view as it was made public as far back as February 2021 when we declared our preference for a Yoruba Muslim president