4th April, 2022
PRESS RELEASE:
ADEFARASIN IS JOKING, WE HAVE THE MAJORITY – MURIC
The founder of
the House On the Rock, Pastor Paul Adefarasin on Sunday, revealed the plan of
Christian leaders to get 15 million more voters ahead of the 2023 general
election. In response, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has insisted that
Nigerian Muslims have the overall majority.
MURIC’s response
was contained in a press release issued by its director, Professor Ishaq
Akintola on Monday, 4th April, 2022.
The statement
reads :
“The founder of
the House On the Rock, Pastor Paul Adefarasin has allegedly revealed the plan
of Christian leaders to get 15 million more voters ahead of the 2023 general
election. But Adefarasin must be joking if this is true. Nigerian Muslims have
the overall majority.
“Why are
Christian leaders flaunting the voters’ cards of their members? There must be
something behind it because this is not the first time Nigerians will be
preparing for a general election. They have a game plan and we have an idea
what they are up to.
“There is a grand plot to disenfranchise Muslim
voters. They have enrolled their church members as Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) ad hoc staff. They have filled sensitive posts in
INEC offices with their church members. They will set the machinery in motion
for massive rigging of elections by disallowing Muslims from registering as
voters before the election. It is called forward-looking rigging strategy.
“Anyone wearing
turban, cap or hijab will not be allowed to do capturing during the registration
exercise. It is not a new game. They have always used their church members as
INEC officials to stop Muslims from registering and collecting PVC. It happened
far back in 2003 and all complaints lodged by MURIC at that time was ignored by
INEC.
“We had to
organise a massive protest to INEC office, Ikeja, Lagos, when the deadline for
registration remained a few days before INEC allowed Muslims in hijab, cap and
turban to register. But they are yet to show remorse. They have been repeating
it during every registration exercise (2007, 2011, 2015, 2019).
“MURIC calls the attention of INEC leadership to this
mischievous and obnoxious practice. We will hold INEC responsible for
connivance if any of its ad hoc staff disallows a single Muslim from registering
for the 2023 general elections.
“We charge Muslims all over the country to go out
there and get their voters cards. We appeal to Imams to make the issue of massive
registration for the coming election a major theme in their Friday Khutbah.
This is the time to teach arrogant boasters the lesson of their lifetime. This
is the time to make Muslim majority number count in votes.
“How can those
who marry only one woman and have just four children each claim majority status
over those who marry four women and have as many as sixteen children? These are
people who have been deceiving the Muslim majority with false claims of
oneness. They have been misleading Muslims by warning against religious
politics whereas they are the real culprits behind religious politics.
“But the game is
up. The eyes of Nigerian Muslims are now wide open. Never again will Muslims
use their majority to vote for their oppressors who are the minority. Never again
will Muslims use their large number to vote against their fellow Muslims.
“2023 general election is going to be a protest
vote as far as Nigerian Muslims are concerned. Let the Redeemed Christian
Church of God (RCCG), the Mountain of Fire Ministries (MFM) and House on the
Rock vote for their Christian candidates and let the Muslims vote for Muslim
candidates. That is when we will know who is grandstanding and who is being
realistic.” #MuslimvoteMuslim #LetMuslimVotesCount #AllowMuslimsToVote
Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)
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