Adebayo Adenrele
A social media activist, Reno Omokri has said a Muslim from the northern part of the country will emerge as the next president of Nigeria after Bola Tinubu.
Omomri stated this via his X handle, formerly Twitter.
He noted that the demographic information on religion that recorded Christian and Muslim to be 50/50 was guesswork, stressing that 2023 general election was a testament that Muslims have the lion share of the Nigerian population.
He wrote in part, “Whenever it pleases God that President Tinubu will leave that seat, the next President will be a Northerner. Likely from the Northeast.
“I know it is not what some people want to hear, but the 2023 elections proved a very telling poll due to the greed for power and political desperation of one man.
“What it proved is that even when you split the Muslim vote three ways amongst three strong Muslim candidates, a Muslim can still win a Presidential election in Nigeria convincingly.
“Nobody knew this for a fact until 2023. Anyone who says they knew this for sure is lying. We suspected, especially after the first almost successful Muslim-Muslim ticket of Chief MKO Abiola and Babagana Kingibe of 1993. But we never knew it for a fact.
“No previous President was bold enough to include religion as a question in Nigeria’s recent censuses, and any demographic information on religion was guesswork.
“The famous saying that ‘Nigeria is roughly split 50/50 between Christians and Muslims’ is NOT true.
“2023 confirmed that Muslims are an absolute majority in Nigeria.”
