The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has told Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo, Regional Leader of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), to “wait until 2027” if he intends to see a Christian occupy Nigeria’s vice-presidential seat.
Professor Ishaq Akintola, Founder and Executive Director of MURIC, made the remark while responding to Dachomo’s recent claim that Christians are being politically marginalized under the administration of President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima, both Muslims.
In an interview, Dachomo had said, “‘Shettima is a Muslim, the president is a Muslim. Is that not complete genocide to Christians in the political world? The way forward is to remove Shettima and I stand on it.”
Reacting to the statement, MURIC accused the cleric of “hyperbolic articulation,” adding that he had gone to the extreme in his comments.
”A new twist was thrown into the Christian genocide debate yesterday, Monday, 1st December, 2025 when the Regional Leader of the Church of Christ in Nations, Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo, exploded on national television alleging that the Muslim-Muslim ticket is equal to Christian genocide.”
”MURIC finds this outburst emotive, explosive and kindergarten. It is articulated religiousity cum religious masturbation. It also amounts to a denial of the principles of democracy and the due process painstakingly taken by Nigerians from the electioneering campaigns down to the elections.
”It is equally a declaration of lack of faith in the long judicial exercise that followed the election through the appeal court up to the Supreme Court. It is subjudice. How can anyone suggest the removal of the vice president who emerged from a free, fair and credible election? If Dachomo wants to be the vice president of Nigeria, he must follow the well-known democratic process. He must wait for 2027.
“Has our reverend gone paranoia? He sees Muslim-Muslim ticket in his sprawling mansion, in his wardrobe, in television studios and, of course, in the mythical Christian genocide. That is why he believes it amounts to Christian genocide for the Nigerian president and his vice to be Muslims.
”But Dachomo’s likely schizophrenia has come with the dramatisation and sensationalism which are characteristic of our Christian neighbours when they are pushing an agenda or when they have something to hide.”
MURIC recalled an incident in 2018 when protesters attempted to obstruct soldiers investigating the death of Mohammed Idris Alkali, a retired Major-General.
Alkali was reported missing on September 3, 2018, and his body was discovered on October 31, 2018. Investigations later revealed that he had been ambushed and killed along the Jos Bypass in Plateau State.
”A whole mass of women in a Jos community came out to protest half nude in September 2018 when they were trying to deceive soldiers who were searching for their missing general, Idris Alkali. Trust the military, they ignored the hocus pocus, continued the search and later found their general inside a deep well.
“MURIC sees a sea of con artists in the current mass psychosis. We are not unaware that dramatisation is a special course in the curriculum of some religious training institutes.
“It also comes with an entitlement mentality regarding what belongs to others by right and by fair play. Our neighbours feel no qualms claiming such things even at the expense of contempt of court. Fair or foul, what they cannot get by the straight must be snatched by the bend.
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“That is why Dachomo and his co-travellers ‘believe’ that they can snatch the mandate given by a Muslim majority, albeit a silent, voiceless and docile one, under the guise of a false allegation of Christian genocide, particularly if the connivance of arm-twisting Western crusaders is secured.
”But the wind has blown. We have seen the ruff of the hen. All along, in the past seven or eight weeks, this has been the casus belli. We did not know that all the noise about ‘Christian genocide’ has to do with a political post. That post has been so important to our neighbours that they were ready to concoct all forms of lies against us.
“We salute the good Christians in this country. Many of them stood up and they were counted. Many of them spoke out boldly and loudly because they knew the truth and the truth eventually set them free (John 8:32).
”We reiterate our appeal to the good Christians and the good Muslims of this country. Let us come together to rescue our land from ruthless killers and mindless kidnappers.
“Before we sign out, we call attention to Reverend Dachomo’s combative posture during his interview on television. We remind him that religious clerics are models. Our followers watch and emulate us. Unless it is deliberate incitement of Nigerian Christians, Dachomo needs to mellow down.”
