MUSLIM RIGHTS CONCERN (MURIC)
هيئة حقوق المسلمين
Motto: Dialogue, Not Violence
Date: 2nd December, 2025
DACHOMO EXHIBITED SUPERFLUOUS PARANOIA ON CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE -
MURIC
Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo, Regional Leader of the Church of Christ in
Nations, cried out on national television yesterday that it amounts to
Christian genocide for the Nigerian president and his vice to be Muslims.
Reacting to this assertion, a faith-based Islamic human rights
organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has accused the Christian
cleric of being obsessed with hyperbolic articulation. MURIC argued that
Dachomo went to the extreme in his outburst.
Going further, MURIC said:
"A new twist was thrown into the Christian genocide debate
yesterday, Monday, 1st December, 2025 when the Regional Leader of
the Church of Christ in Nations, Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo, exploded on national
television alleging that the Muslim-Muslim ticket is equal to Christian
genocide.
"We
quote him verbatim: 'Shettima is a Muslim, the president is a Muslim. Is that
not complete genocide to Christians in the political world? The way forward is
to remove Shettima and I stand on it' (https://dailypost.ng/2025/12/01/tinubu-shettima-muslims-shows-complete-genocide-against-christians-rev-dachomo/)
"MURIC
finds this outburst emotive, explosive and kindergarten. It is articulated
religiousity cum religious masturbation. It also amounts to a denial of the
principles of democracy and the due process painstakingly taken by Nigerians
from the electioneering campaigns down to the elections.
"It is equally a declaration of lack of faith in the long
judicial exercise that followed the election through the appeal court up
to the Supreme Court. It is subjudice. How can anyone suggest the removal of
the vice president who emerged from a free, fair and credible election? If
Dachomo wants to be the vice president of Nigeria, he must bofollow the well
known democratic process. He must wait for 2027.
"Has our reverend gone paranoia? He sees Muslim-Muslim ticket in
his sprawling mansion, in his wardrobe, in television studios and, of course,
in the mythical Christian genocide. That is why he believes it amounts to
Christian genocide for the Nigerian president and his vice to be Muslims.
"But Dachomo's likely schizophrenia has come with the
dramatisation and sensationalism which are characteristic of our Christian
neighbours when they are pushing an agenda or when they have something to
hide.
"A whole mass of women in a Jos community came out to protest half
nude in September 2018 when they were trying to deceive soldiers who were
searching for their missing general, Idris Alkali. Trust the military, they
ignored the hocus pocus, continued the search and later found their general
inside a deep well.
"MURIC sees a sea of con artists in the current mass psychosis.
We are not unaware that dramatisation is a special course in the curriculum of
some religious training institutes.
It
also comes with an entitlement mentality regarding what belongs to others by
right and by fair play. Our neighbours feel no qualms claiming such things even
at the expense of contempt of court. Fair or foul, what they cannot get by
the straight must be snatched by the bend.
"That is why Dachomo and his co-travellers 'believe' that they
can snatch the mandate given by a Muslim majority, albeit a silent, voiceless
and docile one, under the guise of a false allegation of Christian genocide,
particularly if the connivance of arm-twisting Western crusaders is secured.
"But the wind has blown. We have seen the ruff of the hen. All
along, in the past seven or eight weeks, this has been the casus belli. We
did not know that all the noise about 'Christian genocide' has to do with a
political post. That post has been so important to our neighbours that they
were ready to concoct all forms of lies against us.
"We
salute the good Christians in this country. Many of them stood up and they were
counted. Many of them spoke out boldly and loudly because they knew the truth
and the truth eventually set them free (John 8:32).
"We reiterate our appeal to the good Christians and the good
Muslims of this country. Let us come together to rescue our land from ruthless
killers and mindless kidnappers.
“The
book of Isaiah 1:18 says, ‘Come, let us reason together’. Similarly, Qur’an 3:64
says, ‘Oh people of the Book, come unto common terms with us…’ We have no
scintilla of doubt that the good Muslims and the good Christians can make
Nigeria great if they work together.
"To do this, we must cooperate with the government of President
Bola Ahmed Tinubu by exposing the criminals in our midst, no matter their faith
or ethnicity. We must not allow our political party, tribe or religious
affiliation to becloud our patriotism. Political party or religion must
not be on the table or in the driving seat if we are serious about fighting
insecurity.
“Before we sign out, we call attention to Reverend Dachomo’s combative
posture during his interview on television. We remind him that religious
clerics are models. Our followers watch and emulate us. Unless it is deliberate
incitement of Nigerian Christians, Dachomo needs to mellow down.”
#ChristianGenocide
#ReverendDachomo
#SuperfluousParanoia
Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Founder/Executive Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC).
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