The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has expressed its expectation for the inclusion of Professor Abideen Olaiya as one of President Bola Tinubu’s Ministerial nominees.
The expectation was expressed in a press statement issued by the group’s Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The full statement reads: “The Nigerian Senate has unveiled 28 names of ministerial nominees sent by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. A top party official of the ruling party has also indicated that twelve more names of other nominees are in the offing.
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“The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) can confidently reveal the name that is making waves among Nigerian Muslims at the moment. Muslims North and South of Nigeria are rooting for Professor Abideen Olaiya as one of the Ministers that must emerge from the South West.
“It will be recalled that MURIC had demanded that at least four out of the six ministers from the South West should be Muslims in order to partly make up for the injustice of the past, particularly in the days of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan when all six ministers from the region were Christians to the chagrin of the majority Muslim population.
“No excuse can be acceptable for omitting Olaiya’s name in the ministerial list, not competence, not party loyalty, not even diligence or antecedent. We plead that the choice of the Muslim Ummah be respected”.
Recall that Tinubu sent the first batch of his Ministers to the Senate, Thursday, July 27 for screening and confirmation
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