'President is not Islamising Nigeria' - Group

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February 29, 2016 11:33 AM

“By making such a wild and untenable statement, Fayose has just emerged as the most idle executive governor Nigeria ever had.”

President Muhammadu Buhari (left) and Saudi Arabia monarch, Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has come out to defend Mohammadu Buhari by saying the president has no plans to make Nigerian an Islamic state.

Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state recently said that Buhari’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia was to map out ways of Islamising the country.

During a church service, the governor said: “They have started subtle moves to make Nigeria an Islamic nation, but God will stop them. This was done in 1984, it failed, it would fail again.

“Why did five of them go to Saudi Arabia to wait for our man there, if they don’t have agenda.

“The agenda is coming small small, but we will resist it. Nigeria is a free nation where we proclaim the name of Jesus Christ freely, and we believe in Allah for those who are Muslims. This nation will not be taken for an Islamic nation.”

The group, headed by Ishaq Akintola has responded to this by saying Fayose was suffering from “diarrhea of the mouth”.

“By making such a wild and untenable statement, Fayose has just emerged as the most idle executive governor Nigeria ever had,” Akintola said.

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“Even a ten-year old Nigerian child knows the reason for Buhari’s visit to Saudi Arabia. Turbulence in the price of oil has greatly impoverished Nigeria and Buhari is employing diplomacy to turn round our oil fortune.

“Playing pranks with simply shows that Fayose has lost all sense of objectivity. Like a comedian governor and a court jester primus inter pares, Fayose prefers to cast a wicked joke with the fate of the Nigerian economy.

“But his attempt to whip up religious sentiment has failed woefully because Nigerians know that Fayose is a pathological liar, an unstable politician and an unreliable judge of men.”

Akintola also brought up the fact that the governor had no comments when former president Goodluck Jonathan regularly visited Jerusalem when he was in power.

“Nigerians should help us ask Fayose where he was when his erstwhile mentor and former President Jonathan turned Jerusalem to the back-yard of Aso Rock, shuttling between Nigeria and Israel with jet-loads of marabouts and arms money. Was Fayose’s mouth padlocked at that time?” he said.

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