The treasonous offence and dangerous call to fellow Muslims to kill the President’s wife because she is a Christian, completely negates the Constitutional provision that makes Nigeria a secular state or federation where each and every citizen is free to practise their religion. Since Nigeria is a secular state, it is an assault and attack on the rights of other citizens not to practise their chosen faith.

The call on fellow Muslims to kill a woman and mother simply because she is a Christian married to a Muslim, is another dangerous proposition that is capable of throwing the country into unquenchable flames. Even in the most fanatic and most conservative Muslim places where cases of religious intolerance have been reported, such evil calls for non-Muslims married to Muslim husbands are not heard.

Nigeria and its laws of religious independence have not changed to warrant an extremist to call for the unlawful death of the wife of the president of the country. Consequently, we state as follows:

That the open threat to Senator Oluremi Tinubu, an illustrious Itsekiri daughter and wife of the President, amounts to a treasonable felony contrary to Section 37 of the Criminal Code as applicable in the South and Section 410 of the Penal Code applicable to the North. The call for the assassination of the wife of Mr. President is in all intents and purposes, tantamount to a call for the unlawful killing of Mr. President himself.

The vexatious and inhuman call is not just to ‘levy war on Mr. President, but it is meant to intimidate him and create an over-awe to him and members of his family including his beloved wife contrary to the above provisions of our laws, the reason being that anyone who declares death on the wife of a sitting president has also declared death on her husband.

Having deliberately done this, we demand the immediate arrest and prosecution of the offender in the person of Mr. Abdulaziz Dusen and those who are with him in this dangerous plot. He is a threat to other non-Muslims and a threat to National Security and integration. We demand for the full weight of the law to fall upon him.

We call on Mr. President to provide the necessary security for the personal safety of our dear sister, her children and those around her henceforth within and outside the country. The Inspector General of Police and his counterparts must do everything possible to protect the first lady from harm. She remains our pride and we will not tolerate anything that will expose her to such dangers. No single scratch must touch her skin.

Other well-meaning Nigerians, especially our good Muslim brothers and sisters should come out to openly condemn this despicable act aimed at not just inciting adherents of both faiths against one another, but it is capable of being taken advantage of by extremists to unleash another round of terror and mayhem on the nation which is currently facing the problem of insecurity like never before.

This was how Boko Haram and other non-state actors began their campaigns of hatred that have engulfed the nation today. Senator Oluremi Tinubu, wife of Mr. President, our beloved Itsekiri sister, will not be used as cannon fodder to test-run a new orgy of bloodbath in the country.

The apex Itsekiri socio-cultural organisation, Movement for the Protection of Iwere Homeland, Development and History (MPIHDH) Worldwide promises and hereby pledges its commitment to continue to stand for the defence of the first lady and all Itsekiris worldwide. We, the members, will not fold our arms while anybody or group comes out to attempt to blackmail or intimidate our dear sister for the woes their own sons and people in previous governments and regimes created for ALL Nigerians in the recent past which have brought Nigerians so much pain and hardship while they remained mute without calling for the death of their people.

We re-state: no harm must happen to our dear sister, the distinguished Sen. oluremi tinubu, wife of Mr. President. We will be monitoring the situation as we await the immediate arrest of the mastermind of this deadly plot that is not in the collective interest of all Nigerians irrespective of tribe, sex and religion.

Deliberately, I have left out the six names of the officers world-wide of this wondrous Itsekiri Movement. Do I share their sentiments?

Yes or no, their patriotic sensibility is unfaultable! And the radical-cum-intellectual columnist endorses their fervent fervor which he cannot but be a fervent supporter of.

Afejuku can be reached via 08055213059.