Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has advised political parties and 2023 candidates against compromising the constitution.
He denounced the boldness of considering and promoting a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a statement released on Tuesday.
Such “barefaced heartlessness surpasses any imagination,” according to the lawyer.
He questioned how some individuals could muster the fortitude to promote a Muslim-Muslim ticket “in a divided entity” in the face of Section 10 of the Constitution.
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Adegboruwa presented a series of questions to the promoters, curious as to what may be the explanation.
He asked: “Superiority of faith? Enforcement of international conspiracies? A new form of Jihad? Is it a matter of distrust for or supposed inferiority of South West Muslims? Is the South West Muslim not Muslim enough or Northern Christian not Northern enough?”
The lawyer insisted that it was still the same elite that concocted bogus ideas in order to generate conflict where none existed.
Even if the Christian population were to fall below what it is now, Adegboruwa believes that the liberal notion of freedom of religion and thought would help to balance the power imbalance.
The SAN reminded Nigerians that a Muslim (President Muhammadu Buhari) has been in power since 2015, with little or no ability to control Islamists who target innocent Muslims.
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“And yet the statistics show that from the South-South to the South-East, there is an incontestable monopoly of faith across the land and some would have us believe that they do not matter.
“In what way do we explain to those of them in Ondo, Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States that they should continue to play second fiddle due to the recklessness of some power monsters?” He asked.
Adegboruwa warned against using religion as a tool for power retention and told the promoters to perish the thought.
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