2023: Avoid Wike by all means, he is an open enemy of Islam – MURIC tells Atiku

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has warned the presidential flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, against picking the governor of Rivers State, Nyesome Wike, as his running mate.

The Muslim group said the Rivers state Governor has been blacklisted by Nigerian Muslims.

This was according to a statement signed and circulated by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.

“Wike is an open enemy of Islam, a Muslim-hater primus inter pareil and an unrepentant mosque destroyer,” the statement alleged.

“The extremist remarks of Wike are still on record. He declared Rivers State a Christian State contrary to the constitution,” the group’s statement reads in part.

“Wike should not be allowed to hold any post at the federal level. Wike hates the sight of mosques” and is ready to use his office as the number two citizen of the country to destroy all mosques in Nigeria.

MURIC said that the Governor “is intolerant, unpredictable and violence-inclined” and does not have the trust of Muslims in Nigeria.

The rights group believes that Wike, who came second in the PDP’s presidential primary election, “will definitely be a bad market for Atiku.”

MURIC said that Wike does not have electoral value at the national level and for that reason should be overlooked by the main opposition party.

“We, therefore, advise Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to avoid Wike by all means,” MURIC said.