2023: Why Atiku Must Not Pick Wike As VP — MURIC Warns

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, against choosing Rivers State Governor Nyesome Wike as his running mate.

According to MURIC, the Rivers State Governor is one of the discriminatory Christian governors that have been blacklisted by Nigerian Muslims.

The Islamic organisation expressed this viewpoint in a statement signed and issued by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.

The group stated that it had learned that Wike was being considered as a prospective vice presidential candidate by the PDP and Atiku, and that it felt it was vital to warn the party and its flagbearer against such a move.

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