Pantanmi, who described the campaign for him to step down as politically motivated, renounced some the controversial statements he made in the past. But that did not stop those who asked President Muhammadu Buhari to fire him from continuing with their campaign.
In a statement issued by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, MURIC said everyone has their past.
“A phase of the Nigerian press published reviews of calls being made by means of some humans for the resignation of Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami over the fake information that the USA had placed him on its watchlist. The 2d allegation became that the minister had made positive radical pronouncements in the past.
“It is a baseless name and it should be left out. Afterall, the United States itself has denied it. Dr. Pantami has been taking part in unhindered multiple entry to the US for a totally long time. Even Facebook, the United States based totally social media massive had Pantami’s image on Facebook’s digital board for several hours as a mark of honor and recognize at some stage in one in every of his severa visits to that usa.
“The campaign of calumny is being driven with the aid of forces against the Federal Government’s NIN policy, Boko Haram terrorists, bandits, criminals in popular and political IDPs (Internally Displaced Politicians). No one who has the love of Nigeria at coronary heart will assist one of these malicious and frivolous allegation.
“It is a well-known reality that NIN is designed to reveal the actual identity of criminals like Yahoo Yahoo boys, bandits and kidnappers who use the internet and smartphone to extort cash from foreigners and households of kidnapped victims. They live a life of Mr. Jekyll and Hyde : respected gentlemen inside the day but risky criminals at night time and on lonely alleys.
“They have come to be jittery ever for the reason that NIN coverage became introduced by Pantami’s Ministry of Communications and Digital Policy. They are amongst those who stand to advantage from Pantami’s resignation. As for the political IDPs, their cause is to make sure that no undertaking initiated through the cutting-edge management succeeds.
“The implications of Pantami’s resignation at this vital stage are too gloomy to contemplate. It is a national safety issue. The NIN scheme, our desire for dealing a technical blow on terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping and all varieties of criminality in the usa will suffer suffocating palpitations. There may be a wreck in tracking. It is better for us to permit the man who began it to finish it. If any problem arises after we have modified hands within the middle of its implementation, the new boss will without problems shift the blame. It will then be a double tragedy. Let the newbie be the finisher. #beginnermustbefinisher
“In the interest of our fantastic united states, Nigeria, we therefore fee Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami to disregard requires his resignation. An agitation for resignation which is not primarily based on sincerity and truth should be resisted by using patriots. This marketing campaign for the minister’s resignation is in bad flavor. It is pregnant with ulterior reasons. Pantami must now not surrender. He have to no longer succumb to cheap blackmail. A captain does not abandon deliver in stormy waters. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
“On the difficulty of statements credited to Pantami in his younger days, we marvel how detractors would provide choice to pronouncements made via a youngster and those made in the days of students’ unionism to the ones made after maturity and clairvoyance. It is sheer mischief to are searching for to apply that towards him.
“If they've proof of speeches added 35 years ago whilst Pantami became a teen, we have indubitable proof of more latest anti-terrorism speeches, mainly his public debates with the past due Boko Haram chief Muhammad Yusuf where the minister made mincemeat of the arguments of Muhammad Yusuf. But our most powerful proof is the threat made via Shekau, the present day chief of Boko Haram, to kill Pantami.
“Again, come to think of it. It was no longer as though the minister committed any respectable misconduct. Neither is it for abuse of workplace nor for corrupt enrichment. Some people simply want to crucify him for daring to collect infotech talents ostensibly reserved for a sure circle of elites. They accept as true with that that is a field jealously reserved and protected for the Western literati and their Nigerian cronies. Not an area for a mallam. It is just too petty the way a few Nigerians assume and behave. This is every other massive raison d’etre for the Shaykh to sit down tight, keep and complete his correct work, all to the chagrin of suggest detractors.
“Pantami ought to have resigned the instant his lifestyles become threatened via the Boko Haram chief in February 2021. But he endured to wheather the hurricane because he turned into determined to complete the NIN scheme which he initiated. He knows that his intiative is critical to the defeat of insurgency and terrorism. The terrorists additionally realize it and that changed into the cassu belli for the risk on Pantami’s life. They wanted him to stop the NIN scheme.
“A man who puts his existence on the road for the sake of his country merits the support of each proper wondering Nigerian. It is therefore ironical that the identical man is being asked to renounce. This is in reality a gangup via rebellious subjects and enemies of the human beings. They do no longer imply properly for Nigeria.
“We call on each Nigerian who still has some modicum of our values and norms: hardwork, truthfulness, transparency and responsibility to face in solidarity with the honourable minister. We must now not collectively hand over one of the few symbols of our satisfaction to individuals who believe in clean money, people who see fraud as a necessity of lifestyles, people who consider in making their own wealth by way of inflicting problem, pain and anguish for others. It will mean the triumph of evil. We ought to now not allow this to take place. Auudhubillahi. Allah forbid.”
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