09/08/2026
PRESS STATEMENT
Date: 9 August 2026
Concerned Christian Youth Forum (CCYF) Strongly Condemns Sheikh Jingir’s Divisive and Provocative Rhetoric; Calls for Restraint, National Unity and Respect for Nigeria’s Secular Constitution.
The Concerned Christian Youth Forum (CCYF) notes with deep concern and firm rejection the recent public statements attributed to Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir advocating a continued Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket.
Sheikh Yahaya Jingir,
You stood up, called Nigeria a Muslim country, branded those who reject your fantasy “infidels,” and told your people to show us our “limit.” Yet right now this same Nigeria has roughly 20 Christian governors against 16 Muslim governors. One drunk on supremacy rhetoric cannot erase that arithmetic with a microphone.
If Nigeria were truly “a Muslim country” the way you claim, the map of state houses would look very different. It does not. The South-East, South-South, and large parts of the South-West and Middle Belt are under Christian governors. That is not a theory. That is the current political reality.
Your claim collapses under the simplest count of who actually sits in the 36 Government Houses.
A Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket does not rewrite demography or turn a multi-religious republic into your personal theocratic estate. Elections are not religious censuses. Governors are not population certificates. Nigeria has never conducted an official religious headcount since 1963. Every percentage you wave is an estimate. Pretending otherwise is either ignorance or deliberate deceit.
You speak the language of conquest while the country burns from insecurity, hunger, and institutional failure. You measure who is “more” while citizens of every faith bury their dead and struggle to eat. That is not strength. That is distraction dressed as piety.
Christians have largely kept the peace. That peace comes from the teachings of Jesus Christ, not from fear of your threats. It is a deliberate choice. It is not a permanent licence for any cleric to spit on equal citizenship or to declare that Nigeria “belongs to us.” Continue this line and you will discover that patience has edges.
Nigeria is not your trophy. It is not a Muslim country. It is a secular, multi-religious state in which Christian governors currently outnumber Muslim ones. Your rhetoric does not change that fact. It only exposes how little you care about the unity you claim to protect.
Stop the supremacy talk. The numbers already answer you.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
God bless every Nigerian, irrespective of faith.
Signed
Paul James Adama
Convener
Concerned Christian Youth Forum (CCYF)
Abuja, Nigeria
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria PFN National
