- MURIC accuses Lagos CAN of hypocrisy for supporting the lopsided list of commissioners with more Christians nominated
- MURIC’s Director questions if CAN would react similarly if Muslims had the majority of nominees
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has accused the Lagos State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) of hypocrisy in its stance on the controversy surrounding Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s nomination of Christians as commissioners.
There are 31 Christians and eight Muslims on the list of nominees.
Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Director of the MURIC, said in a statement on Tuesday that a press conference addressed by the chairman of the CAN, Lagos State chapter, Rev. Stephen Adegbite, in which he supported the lopsided list of commissioners submitted by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, was in poor taste.
Akintola wondered if Lagos CAN would have acted the same way if Muslims had 31 commissioners and Christians only had 8.
Our response to his (Adegbite’s) vituperations and irrational position is very simple. Governor Sanwo-Olu supported the Muslim-Muslim ticket not because he was convinced that it was democratic and therefore right, not even because he was fully in support of a Muslim ruling the country, but because he had no choice but to support his principal and political godfather.
Failure to do so would have endangered his chances of securing a second term. Sanwo-Olu’s perceived support for the Muslim-Muslim ticket was therefore a self-preservation move. It was not from the governor’s heart but from his pharyngeal cavity, he said.