A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All
Progressives Congress, Yekini Nabena has said the refusal of the Peoples
Democratic Party to honour the zoning arrangement was more harmful to the unity
of Nigeria when compared to the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the ruling APC.
Recall that the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu had on Sunday announced the former Governor of Borno State, Senator
Kashim Shettima as his running-mate.
But Nabena on Tuesday while addressing journalists in Abuja,
said Nigerians should be more worried about the main opposition party that
killed fairness and conventional power rotation between the North and the
South, and not a Muslim-Muslim ticket of the ruling party.
He said Nigerians should ignore the unnecessary cry by the
opposition parties, insisting that a single faith ticket was not new in Nigeria
according to history.
The APC chieftain said Nigerians must reject PDP in 2023 to
show their anger against the injustice done to the zoning arrangement.
According to him, PDP zoned Presidency to the North, while
the incumbent President is from the North, a Muslim and Fulani man, just like
Atiku. This actually calls for anger and not harmless Muslim-Muslim ticket of
the APC,” Nabena said.
He said Nigeria had Buhari/Idiagbon which was a
Muslim-Muslim ticket, Gowon/Adewale, which was a Christian-Christian ticket in
the past and heaven did not fall.
Nabena added that in 2011 when the Action Congress of Nigeria
(ACN) fielded Nuhu Ribadu and Fola Adeola, both Muslims, there was no cry by
the opposition because the ticket stood no chance of winning.
He said: “None of those agitating against the Muslim-Muslim
ticket on the basis of fairness has considered the Traditional African
Worshippers. How fair is it that we are agitating for fairness and equity to
share power between Christians and Muslims while completely ignoring and
alienating our African Traditional Worshippers, where is justice?
“Nigeria should worry more about the zoning arrangement
which the PDP has just killed for their selfish interest and desperation of its
presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar because for Atiku it is the last chance
which will become one-chance for him by 2023.”
“The APC has done the right thing by zoning the presidency
to the South. Nigerians must know that religion is a matter of individual race,
the most important thing is that the presidency is in the South compared to
PDP’s unfair treatment to the South.”
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