The Muslim Community of Oyo State (MUSCOYS) on Wednesday dissociated itself from any resolution arising from the Yoruba Constitutional Conference organised by some Yoruba leaders in Ibadan.
Addressing a news conference in Ibadan, the Chairman of the community, Alhaji Is-haq Sanni, said the organisers of the conference were not true representation of the Yoruba people.
“How can you talk of Yoruba leaders in Yoruba land where at least 70 per cent of the population are Muslims without a single Muslim in their midst,’’ Sanni said.
He specifically faulted the composition of the conveners of the conference without the likes of Alhaji Lateef Jakande, Chief Kola Daisi, Prof. Daud Noibi, Shuaib Oyedokun, Dr Jubril Martins-Kuye, among others.
Sanni urged the public to disregard any resolution of the conference organised by the group.
”They are not serving the interest of the Yoruba people, let alone the Muslim Community in the Yoruba speaking states,” he said.
It will be recalled that the Yoruba Constitutional Conference group under the auspices of Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG), Coalition of O’dua Self Determination Groups (COSEG), O’dua National Coalition (ONAC) met in Ibadan on Wednesday to set the Yoruba agenda a head of the national conference.
Others were Atayese, Covenant Group (CG), Afenifere Youth Forum (AYF), Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Agbekoya Reformed Society and Oodua Foundation (Diaspora).