MURIC rejoices with Vice President Osinbajo over escape from helicopter crash

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has felicitated with Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo over his safe escape from helicopter crash in Kabba, Kogi State, North Central Nigeria on Saturday 2 February 2019 when he visited the state in continuation of the community based campaign he is doing Buhari/Osinbajo re-election bid.

Osinbajo and other passengers including crew members on board the ill-fated chopper alighted safely and unhurt.

In a message congratulating the Vice President on his “miraculous escape”, MURIC said the incident proved that Allah loved Nigeria and that the Supreme Creator actually chose the professor for Nigerians.

The Islamic human rights organisation maintained that there has never been any vice president like Yemi Osinbajo.

It said this in a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday 5February, signed by its Director and founder, Professor Ishaq Akintola, and copy of which was sent to The DEFENDER.

“We warmly felicitate with our Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, for coming out alive and unhurt from the crashed chopper. We just cannot contemplate the huge loss and the gravity of the tragedy if it had been the other way round.

“We affirm that Nigeria cannot afford to lose Osinbajo at this crucial moment. We have never had a vice president like him. Osinbajo is cut for the job. He is the most loyal, most level-headed and most active vice president Nigeria ever had. It is also clear from his handling of issues on all the occasions that he has acted in the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari, that he is not greedy or overambitious. These are some of the reasons MURIC is deeply appreciative to Allah that we did not cry over his dead body on Saturday.

“Besides, Professor Osinbajo is the kind of Christian leader we as Muslims will be comfortable with any time any day. We have seen how he treats Nigerians of different faiths equally. He has freed himself from religious bigotry. He is totally detribalized and his analysis of the Nigerian debacle has often doused tension.

“We urge Nigerians of all creeds and ethnicity to pray for Allah’s continued protection for him and for President Muhammadu Buhari. We assure the vice president that he enjoys tremendous goodwill across the board. We charge him to apply more grease to his elbow. The fact that this is the second time that he will escape death through helicopter crashes indicates that he has a date with history. We pray that he will overwhelm all obstacles in his path in order to fulfill his destiny.”