MURIC HAILS SULTAN FOR BOLD STAND ON NIREC

 

MUSLIM RIGHTS CONCERN (MURIC)

‎هيئة حقوق المسلمين

‎Motto: Dialogue, Not Violence

‎11^th December, 2025

‎‎PRESS RELEASE:

‎MURIC HAILS SULTAN FOR BOLD STAND ON NIREC

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‎The Second Tri-Annual Meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC), was held in Abuja yesterday, Wednesday 10^th December, 2025.

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‎At the meeting, the Sultan of Sokoto and Co-Chair of the Council, His Eminence, Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III, warned that NIREC risks losing its relevance unless faith leaders embrace sincerity, accountability, and genuine dialogue.

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‎Reacting to the Sultan's warning, a faith-based civil liberties organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), commended the Sultan for his frank, truthful and bold declaration. The group added that NIREC has become a mere talk shop, an elephant in the room and a gangrene polluting the religious anatomy of the nation.

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‎This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday, 11^th December, 2025 by the Executive Director of the human rights body. 

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‎The statement continues:

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‎"The President General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs NSCIA) and Sultan of Sokoto who also doubles as the Co-Chair of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC), His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III, warned yesterday, Wednesday, 10^th December, 2025 that NIREC risks losing its relevance unless faith leaders  embrace sincerity, accountability, and genuine dialogue (https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/insecurity-were-not-honest-with-nigerians-sultan-slams-faith-leaders/).

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‎"Quoted verbatim, the Sultan said inter alia, 'We sit down and say so many good things to one another, knowing God owns everything. Yet, when we go out, away from our comfort zone, we begin to say negative things about one another. Are we really honest with ourselves?” he queried.'

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‎"MURIC commends the Sultan for this frank, truthful and bold declaration. In our humble opinion, NIREC has become a mere talk shop, an elephant in the room and a gangrene polluting the religious anatomy of the nation.

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‎"Coming from a leader who has always restrained his Muslim followers from reacting spontaneously to provocative utterances and actions from Christian leaders, a leader who has always counseled Muslims on the need for patience, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, there is no scintilla of ambiguity that the Christian membership of the Council has pushed the Sultan to the wall with their insatiable desire for domination in all matters.

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‎"We are also certain that the last nail in the coffin of cordiality among members of NIREC was driven in by ongoing maliciously fabricated allegation of Christian genocide which is an indubitable evidence of long-standing malice being nursed by Christians within the Council.

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‎"If the Christian members in the Council possess goodwill and genuinely manifest same towards their Muslim members, the reports on the fictitious genocide sent by Nigerian Christians to America could have been tabled first at a NIREC meeting. 

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‎"For Christian members of NIREC to have authored or supported reports lodged outside the shores of Nigeria particularly to a country that has the capacity to strike with deadly missiles from far away or invade our country and forcefully take our president and his vice to Guantanamo Bay is the highest degree of bad faith, ill will and betrayal. 

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‎"We doff our hat for the Sultan for having the golden heart to sit at the same table with his Christian colleagues after this humongous treachery. Other leaders would have boycotted the Council meeting. 

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‎"It beats us hollow that anyone would associate our leader with terrorism. Yet some of the Christian soulless petitions mentioned his name. This Sultan preaches peaceful coexistence 24 hours of the day. He spends a large chunk of his time with Christians within and outside his palace. So, where, when and how did he promote terrorism?

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‎"We are shocked to our narrows that while our leader keeps us busy in the day with peace talks and we go to bed at night believing that all was well, our Christian neighbours spent the night holding nocturnal meetings on how to maneuver the media to spread anti-Muslim sentiments and how to engineer the invasion of Nigeria by America. Saul, Saul, why doth thou persecuteth me? (Acts 9:4).

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‎"To be or not to be? That is the question. Whether to say to our neighbours, 'To your camps oh Israel', or whether to sit down for a heart to heart talk on the way towards amicable settlement of issues within the Council. To agree to disagree, again to disagree to agree, that Nigeria may have peace, that Nigeria may have progress, that Nigeria may have both motion and movement, not motion devoid of movement."

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‎#NIREC

‎#SultanOfSokoto

‎#ToBeOrNotToBe

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‎Professor Ishaq Akintola,

‎Founder/Executive Director,

‎Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC). 

 

POLITICAL ORPHAN: MURIC ADVISES GOV ADELEKE TO SEEK GOD'S FORGIVENESS

 

MUSLIM RIGHTS CONCERN (MURIC)

‎هيئة حقوق المسلمين

‎Motto: Dialogue, Not Violence

‎Date: 8^th December, 2025

PRESS RELEASE:

POLITICAL ORPHAN: MURIC ADVISES GOV ADELEKE TO SEEK GOD'S FORGIVENESS

‎The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has advised the executive governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, to seek the forgiveness of God in order to find a way out of his present political conundrum.

‎‎The advice came after the governor opted out of his former political party at the twilight of a gubernatorial election and found himself searching for a political platform to seek a second term at the eleventh hour. 

‎‎MURIC's counsel was given by its Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Monday, 8th December, 2025.

‎‎The statement reads:

‎‎"Political pundits recently described Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State as a political orphan.  This was sequel to the governor's formal exit from his former political party and his prolonged search for a platform to launch his second term ambition (https://saharareporters.com/2025/12/06/osun-governor-adeleke-party-orphan-apc-chieftain-says-after-supreme-court-ruling-council).

‎‎"While MURIC agrees with those who label the governor as a political orphan, we cannot but identify the raison d'etre for the governor's present predicament.

‎‎"It is not human. It is divine. Governor Adeleke himself had played the double game with his Creator. He is a Christian in the morning but claims to be a Muslim by noon. This Jekyll and Hyde game may be responsible for present Adeleke's political quagmire.

‎‎"Deep inside him the governor is a Christian and even the monkeys of Idanre forest know this. But he sought to deceive the Muslims whom he had cheated by picking a Christian as a deputy governor in a predominantly Muslim state.

“He also gave the Muslims seven commissioners only while the Christians enjoyed the luxury of seventeen. These two pro-Christian acts have already given the governor away that he is a Christian. This is the secret behind his choice of 'Nurudeen' as his Muslim nomenclature and Jackson as his real Christian name. 

‎‎"He once declared, 'I am both a Muslim and a Christian' (https://greenbreporters-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/greenbreporters.com/news/i-am-both-a-muslim-and-christian-i-will-soon-be-alhaji-prophet-gov-adeleke-of-osun.html/).

‎‎"This declaration forced MURIC to accuse him of engaging in ‘shakala-shokolo antics’ in May 2024 (https://saharareporters.com/2024/05/06/osun-governor-adeleke-showing-symptoms-personality-crisis-syndrome-saying-he-practises).

‎‎"In essence, however, Muslims of Osun State were the losers in the Adeleke hide and seek game. In actual fact, Muslims of Osun state collectively deserve the Nobel Prize for tolerating a Christian-Christian ticket for four years without heading to America to complain of 'Muslim genocide'. For if Muslim-Muslim ticket is equal to Christian genocide (at least that is the gospel according to Rev Ezekiel Dachomo), nothing stops Christian-Christian ticket from being Muslim genocide. 

‎‎"We warned him at the time but he would not listen. We told him to stop desecrating Islam but he ignored us (https://theeagleonline.com.ng/muric-to-gov-adeleke-stop-desecrating-islam/).

‎‎"What Governor Adeleke fails to realise is that Muslims can still accept a candidate in a multi-religious eco-system like Nigeria even if he is a Christian. The only condition is that there should be either a good record or firm assurance of fairness to Muslims, ability to deliver good governance and evidence of the fear of God. 

‎‎"As things stand, Adeleke needs to get closer to his Creator. He must seek forgiveness. We advise him to go to church in order to do that. He will be wasting his time if he comes to the mosque. He doesn’t belong here. Osun Muslims, nay, Nigerian Muslims know where he belongs. His soft landing in 2026 depends on the sincerity of his repentance.

“There is hope but he should stop trying to deceive the Muslims. Adeleke’s case, particularly his current cul de sac may serve as a lesson for other politicians who are deceiving Muslims. Allah is the One whom no eye can see but Who encompasses all visions (Glorious Qur’an 6:103).

“To Governor Jackson Adeleke we have this to say, ‘You brought this upon yourself by trying to deceive God. Stop running from pillar to post. Be the Christian that you really are and those who will vote for you will still vote for you based on your performance in the past four years.

“But first, go to your Cherubim and Seraphim Church. Kneel down, roll on the floor as you usually do and cry to Almighty God with a sincere heart for forgiveness. You will receive His Grace because, according to Alexander Pope, ‘To sin is human, to forgive, divine.”

#GovernorAdeleke

‎#ShakalaShokolo

#SeekForgiveness

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‎Professor Ishaq Akintola,

‎Founder/Executive Director,

‎Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC). 

 

 

CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE: WHEN WILL THE PRESS HEAR FROM THE MUSLIMS? – MURIC

 

MUSLIM RIGHTS CONCERN (MURIC)

‎هيئة حقوق المسلمين

‎Motto: Dialogue, Not Violence

‎Date: 6^th December, 2025

PRESS RELEASE:

CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE: WHEN WILL THE PRESS HEAR FROM THE MUSLIMS? – MURIC

As the conversation rages around the burning question of Christian genocide, an Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has complained that the debate in both the print and electronic media on the subject matter has excluded Islamic scholars in particular and Nigerian Muslims in general.

In a statement issued on Saturday, 6^th December, 2025, the group condemned the path of exclusivity toed by the media and demanded to know when Muslims will be given a place at the table. It insisted that the Nigerian press, except for very few, has drifted away from balance, fairness and professionalism. The statement was signed by the group’s Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.

The full statement reads:

“We are constrained to call attention to the way and manner the ongoing debate on the imaginary Christian genocide is being handled by the Nigerian media. We note with grave concern how both the print and electronic media has excluded Islamic scholars in particular and Nigerian Muslims in general.

“Christian clergies and their followers are given unlimited opportunities to appear on television and to speak on radio or on the pages of newspapers. They use the opportunity to launch verbal halitosis, discharge clangorous diatribes, pour invectives and fire vitriolic attacks without being restrained by their anchors. What is most shocking there is that the Muslims who are being accused are not invited to respond after the Islamophobic fireworks.

“A good example was the interview granted by News Central to Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo on or around 10^th November, 2025 where he ranted endlessly about his phantom genocide based on Muslim-Muslim ticket. To the best of our knowledge, the same television station has not deemed it fit to invite any Muslim scholar from the same area as the Christian cleric to respond to the allegations. Is this fair?

“Meanwhile Muslims from Dachomo’s area under the aegis of Mangu Concerned Muslim Consultative Forum (MCMCF) have debunked Dachomo’s claims. They said Christians of the North Central have engaged in systematic genocide against them for the past 25 years (https://dailypost.ng/2025/12/05/plateau-mangu-muslim-community-slams-rev-dachomo-over-alleged-inflammatory-comments/; https://dailytrust.com/muslim-community-denies-dachomos-claim-of-converting-burnt-church-to-mosque/).

“Media houses chatting with members of the public often forget their corporate responsibility. Television and radio stations, including newspapers must find a way of dousing cyber tension. Litigations may not leave out media houses found to have been negligent or corroborative in public incitement.

“Most importantly, we find the level of professionalism going down steadily in the media in recent time. Or how do we describe the absence of ethics in the media’s handling of interviews with propagators of the misleading Christian genocide narrative? The public only hear one side of the story because it is those who allege alone that are invited.

“What of the Muslim side? Are there no Muslims in this country? Are there no Islamic scholars who can be invited to air their own view? Why does the media always invite Christians from the North Central without giving Muslims from the same zone the right of reply? What happened to the principle of audi alteram partem (hear from the other side)?  

“Muslims have complained of mass killings in their hundreds by terrorists almost on a daily basis in the North West and North East of Nigeria. What efforts has the media made to hear from Muslims from those zones? At least the whole world knows that those being killed by the terrorists in Sokoto, Borno, Katsina, Zamfara, Kano, Kebbi, Yobe, etc are Muslims.

“Most national television stations have correspondents in those Muslim majority states. Why are Nigerians being denied the opportunity to hear from them? We are disturbed that people like Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo are invited by television and radio stations to spit fire against Muslims without the stations inviting a Muslim cleric to respond. Who does that?

“We have seen how representatives of other political parties are invited to defend or state their parties’ positions when allegations are made against them. But the Nigerian press relish in shaving the heads of Muslims in their absence.

“That does not reflect balance or professionalism. It is indoctrination. Nigerians are gradually being programmed to hate Muslims. The Nigerian press is poisoning the minds of the general public (including those of gullible Muslims too) against Islam and its followers. This is very dangerous because we all know that incitement can lead to riots.

“We are therefore calling on the relevant agencies who are expected to monitor, guide, caution and take punitive measures to call these media houses to order before it is too late. At least Nigeria's media landscape is regulated by key bodies like the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for radio, television and digital content, the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) for print media ethics, and the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON).

“We frown at this parochial path of exclusivity toed by the Nigerian media. We demand to know when Muslims will be given a place at the table. We assert that the Nigerian press, except for very few, has drifted away from balance, fairness and professionalism.

“The ongoing debate on Christian genocide has lost its luster due to the way Muslims who constitute a significant proportion of the population has been locked out at a time they stand as the group being accused of a farcical genocide.

“It is only proper that Muslims are involved in the conversation, otherwise it is not a national debate. The Nigerian press, except for very few, has drifted away from balance, fairness and professionalism. The Muslims are being framed. Worse still, they are gagged by the press. They are voiceless, oppressed and repressed.

“The fact that the other side ‘owns’ the press or ‘has influence’ in the media does not matter at all. That does not give the media the licence to deny the Muslims fair hearing. That is the essence of audi alteram partem. The question on our lips is: when will the media hear from the Muslims?”

‎‎#NigerianPress

‎#NUJ

‎#NBC

‎#NPC

#StopGaggingTheMuslims

#WeCantBreathe

#MuslimsAreVoiceless

#MuslimsRemainOppressed

#MuslimsAreVictimsOfTerrorism

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‎Professor Ishaq Akintola,

‎Founder/Executive Director,

‎Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC). 

 

NO TO US INVOLVEMENT IN NIGERIA'S SHARI'AH MATTERS– MURIC

 

MUSLIM RIGHTS CONCERN (MURIC)

‎هيئة حقوق المسلمين

‎Motto: Dialogue, Not Violence

‎Date: 4^th December, 2025

PRESS RELEASE

NO TO US INVOLVEMENT IN NIGERIA'S SHARI'AH MATTERS– MURIC

‎‎A Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Ebenezer Obadare, has urged the United States to pressurize President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to outlaw Shari'ah and the hisbah. 

‎‎However, an islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has rejected the call. In a statement issued on Thursday, 4th December, 2025 by its Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, the group described Obadare's call as crossing the red line. It also added that the call raises more questions than answers about the intention of the United States.

‎‎The statement continues:

‎"A Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Ebenezer Obadare, has urged the United States to pressurize President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to outlaw Shari'ah and the hisbah (https://www.channelstv.com/2025/12/02/at-us-congress-briefing-obadare-calls-for-sharia-law-to-be-declared-unconstitutional/).

‎"The call was made during a joint House briefing in response to US President Donald Trump’s directive and designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern.

‎‎"This call raises more questions than answers and casts doubts on the intention of the United States in its interest in Nigeria's war on terror. It amounts to surrendering Nigeria's sovereignty. It constitutes an affront on the Nigerian constitution, our grund norm. It is therefore a no go area for either the US or the Nigerian government.

‎‎"Obadare's call is mischievous, reactionary and outlandish. It is also undemocratic, neocolonial and imperialistic. As usual, Nigerian Christians who opposed the Shari'ah ab initio and were defeated in due process have now gone through the backdoor to use the US to abolish it. It will not happen. Obadare's approach is not only cowardly, it is immoral and despicable.

‎‎"Shari'ah is the Muslims’ way of life. It cannot be separated ftom Islam. We fought hard to establish it and its foundation is deeply entrenched in legality, constitutionality and democratic values. The moment anyone attempts to touch our Shari'ah, we begin to see him seeking to eliminate Islam in its totality. Our advise is this: don't go there. It is the red line.

‎‎"The greatest challenge our government will face when it starts tampering with Shari'ah is that it will lose the support of liberal and mainstream Muslims who have been opposing the terrorists. Ditto for the hisbah.

‎‎"The United States in particular must not allow doubts to be cast in its interest in Nigeria's war on terror. Is the US fighting terror or fighting Islam? This is a critical question for a Western power that has declared its intention to protect Nigerian Christians. 

‎‎"Nigerian Muslims will continue to support President Tinubu in his war on terrorist groups as long as there are clear lines of demarcation. But Nigerian Muslims are not fools. The story will definitely change if any government, local or foreign, makes any attempt to outlaw our hard earned Shari'ah.

‎‎"Every nation has its own legitimate institutions. Democracy itself has no particular tabula rasa. The system of government which is approved by the people is its own democracy. Interestingly, Shari'ah is an integral part of our system and it was not introduced by force. Something terrible has gone wrong the moment a government starts tampering with the Constitution to favour a minority group.

‎‎"Any attempt to tie the Shari'ah to the war against terrorism will cost both the US and the Nigerian government the cooperation of Nigerian Muslims in all spheres. That is when we will see an existential threat with microscopic accuracy. Obadare's call has crossed the red line. The call also raises more questions than answers about the intention of the United States in the war against terrorism. Is the US fighting terror or fighting Islam? That is our question."

‎‎#NoToAmericaOnShariah

‎#FightTerrorismNotShariah

‎#OnShariahWeStand

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‎Professor Ishaq Akintola,

‎Founder/Executive Director,

‎Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC). 

 

‎‎ DACHOMO EXHIBITED SUPERFLUOUS PARANOIA ON CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE - MURIC

 

MUSLIM RIGHTS CONCERN (MURIC)

‎هيئة حقوق المسلمين

‎Motto: Dialogue, Not Violence

 

‎Date: 2^nd December, 2025

‎‎ DACHOMO EXHIBITED SUPERFLUOUS PARANOIA ON CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE - MURIC

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‎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, 1^st 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

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‎Professor Ishaq Akintola,

‎Founder/Executive Director,

‎Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC). 

 

 

AMBASSADORIAL LIST: MURIC CONGRATULATES FANI KAYODE AND RENO OMOKRI

 

MUSLIM RIGHTS CONCERN (MURIC)

‎هيئة حقوق المسلمين

‎Motto: Dialogue, Not ViolAMBASSADORIAL LIST: MURIC CONGRATULATES FANI KAYODE AND RENO OMOKRI

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‎Date: 30^th November 2025

‎‎PRESS RELEASE:

‎‎AMBASSADORIAL LIST: MURIC CONGRATULATES FANI KAYODE AND RENO OMOKRI

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‎President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has released a second list of names of ambassadors. Meanwhile an Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has congratulated two of the nominees, namely, Chief Fani Kayode and Reno Omokri. 

‎‎The congratulatory message was circulated to the media on Sunday, 30th November, 2025 by the group's Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola. 

‎‎The message reads:

‎‎"President Bola Ahmed Tinubu today released a second list of ambassador nominees which included Chief Femi Fani Kayode and Reno Omokri.

‎‎"The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) hereby heartily congratulates the duo. Theirs are well deserved nominations as they both share common attributes: fearlessness, objectivity and patriotism.  They are proud sons of Nigeria who are eminently qualified for the job. 

‎‎"We are particularly happy for them because they have both distinguished themselves as reliable and genuine Christian team players who are ready to provide places at the table for all regardless of faith. We have no doubt that they will represent Nigeria adequately."

‎‎#AmbassadorialList

‎#FaniKayode

‎#RenoOmokri

‎#Congratulations

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‎Professor Ishaq Akintola,

‎Founder/Executive Director,

‎Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC).