‘Two Muslims Better Than One,’ MURIC Explains Support For Tinubu Over Atiku

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC has urged some Northern governors allegedly ‘planning’ to work for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to shelve the plan saying that it has adopted Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on the grounds that two Muslims are better than one.

GWG.NG reports that Tinubu has chosen Senator Kasshim Shettima, a fellow Muslim as his running mate while Atiku has chosen a Christian in the person of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa as running mate.

Asserting that two Muslims were better than one, MURIC in a statement made available to GWG.NG by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola said:

“Some Northern governors are allegedly ‘planning’ to work for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. This is according to some newspaper reports

“We trust Northern governors. We are of the opinion that somebody is trying to raise a false alarm or ignite the embers of mischief. We find the report lacking in merit. Our position is based on the declaration of the twelve Northern governors who pitched their camp with Bola Ahmed Tinubu by insisting that power must shift to the South just before the presidential primaries.

“We recall that MURIC in its press statement of 11th June 2022 under the caption ‘MURIC to Tinubu on VP Post: Consult the Noble Dozen’ hailed the twelve Northern governors for ‘disabusing the minds of Nigerians concerning the myth of Northern hegemony and a nonexistent caliphate oligarchy by insisting that APC’s presidential candidate must come from the South. This was a great sacrifice and a noble idea.’

“We have no scintilla of doubt that Northern governors who had earlier pledged to support Tinubu will not toy with the idea of working against him because, as Muslims, they are fully aware that every pledge is being recorded by angels.”

“We therefore have every reason to believe that the publication is mere speculation, false, baseless and unfounded. It is an attempt to break Muslim ranks. Northern Muslim governors are too well grounded in politics and the ethics of Islam than to allow such speculation. It cannot be true. It had better not be.

“Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is a Muslim and a Northerner. He is therefore one of us. But Ahmed Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima are two Muslims. Just as two heads are better than one, two Muslims are better than one. Ahmed and Kashim are better than Abubakar and Okonwa. We repeat, two Muslims are better than one.

“MURIC is therefore sending a very strong signal to the North: Yoruba Muslims are standing solidly like the Rock of Gibraltar behind Tinubu. He is our own. We will never desert him.”

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