A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)
and chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Dr Babachir Lawal has
declared that God of justice and equity, through the Nigerian voters, will
decide the victor between Christians and Bola Tinubu’s Muslim-Muslim ticket for
APC in the 2023 presidential election.
The elder statesman insisted that Tinubu has proved to be
daring and uncaring for the Nigerian Christians in the general election and
thereafter.
The former SGF made the declaration on Saturday in a fresh
press statement in reaction to the final submission of a Muslim politician by
Tinubu as his running mate in the 2023 presidential poll.
The statement obtained by NigerianEye reads in part, “I did say it: those the gods want to
destroy they first make mad.
“Tinubu has thrown down the gauntlet. He has submitted
Alhaji Kashim Shetima as his nominee. He has stood by his affirmation that he
only requires Moslem votes to be President and for all he cares, Christians can
all go to hell with their votes.
“This is his position and he has a right to it. I concede to
him.
“We have picked up this gauntlet. The God of justice and
equity through the Nigerian voters will decide the victor between the Nigerian
Christians, Alhaji Tinubu and his party, the APC.
“This is our country and we will not let Alhaji Ahmed Bola
Tinubu relegate us, our children and our religion to second class status in our
own country.
“For us, this is an existential crises. Our rights to
justice and peaceful co-existense with all practitioners of other religions is
under threat.
“A northern Nigerian Christian child deserves to be
bequeathed a future in which he can aspire to be President or Vice President of
Nigeria.
“The Bible supports our position and the Nigerian
Constitution supports and even guarantees it.
“Come on Alhaji Tinubu! Come on APC!
“Again, ‘to your tents o Israel.’ The Bible records a time
like this in history:
“1 Chronicles 12: 32: ‘From the tribe of Issachar, there
were 200 leaders of the tribe with their relatives. All these men understood
the signs of the times and knew the best course for Israel to take,”.
Lawal, who is one of the closest allies of the APC
presidential candidate and former Lagos State governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has
consistently warned the APC and Tinubu against any attempt to adopt
Muslim-Muslim ticket for the coming election.
To demonstrate his vehement opposition, he wrote four
personal letters to Tinubu counselling him on the consequences of going for
Muslim-Muslim ticket at the expense of the Nigerian Christians in the Northern
region.
However, the counseling fell on deaf ears following the
final submission of Kashim Shetima, a Muslim and former governor of Borno State
by Tinubu to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as his
running mate in the next year’s presidential election.
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