May 29: MURIC seeks more security around Tinubu

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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called for enhanced security for the President-Elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, due to rising security threats and treasonable utterances from the opposition camp.

The Executive Director, MURIC, Prof. Ishaq Akintola stated this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.

“We find it necessary to alert the nation, particularly the security agencies, concerning ominous signs on the Nigerian political horizon. Too many threats have emerged over the approaching inauguration of the winner of the presidential election held on Feb. 25.

“We have never had it so tense. The tension in the air is so thick that it can be cut with a knife. This is probably the first time open threats will be issued against a president-elect after he has been declared winner of the presidential election. Serious threats hang over our heads like the sword of Damocles. The signs are too open to be ignored.

“An Abuja-based pastor, Sarah Amaku had the effrontery to say publicly that Tinubu was not the president-elect. She said Tinubu was the president-elect for the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission and the ruling party.

“Controversial Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, also declared yesterday that there was no president-elect.

“An indirect call for interim government and an undisguised attempt at derailing the swearing-in of the president-elect has also emanated from Chuks Ibegbu, the former National Publicity Secretary of the Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide,’’ he said.

Akintola added: “Ibegbu wants the National Assembly to extend President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration by three months, beyond May 29.

“A few followers of one of the presidential candidates who lost the election, Peter Obi, have also converged in front of the Nigerian Army headquarters in Abuja, begging the military to take over power.

“Such utterances and actions have emboldened at least one real and palpable threat as a member of the opposition, Obiajulu Uja, disrupted an Ibom flight from Abuja to Lagos on April 1.

He reportedly delayed the flight for more than one hour.