Babachir Lawal, former secretary to the government of the
federation (SGF), says the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) for the 2023 presidential election will be resisted with
prayers.
Lawal said this at the APC northern Christian leaders summit
on Friday.
Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, picked Kashim
Shettima, the former governor of Borno who’s also a Muslim, as his running mate
for the 2023 presidential election. The development elicited outrage from key
stakeholders, particularly the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
Commenting again on the issue, Lawal said: “Clearly, there
is an agenda to politically, religiously, and economically suppress and oppress
the Northern Christian. But we are up to the task.
“We will protect
ourselves. The PVC and our prayers will be our weapons of choice and we will
massively deploy them in 2023.”
Lawal said the agenda of the Muslim-Muslim ticket is just
unfolding, adding that Christians will resist it.
“The main purpose of this historical narrative is to let you
know that for The APC, a Muslim-Muslim ticket has been a long-term political
strategy and not a one-off decision. Thus, all this talk of competence as the
reason for the choice of the Muslim VP is balderdash and diversionary. This is
a calculated anti-Christian exclusion agenda that is being implemented,” he
said.
“One might ask: why
is the APC itself mute about our rejection of this Muslim Muslim ticket? And
why has none of the other perpetrators of this crisis reached out to Christians
for a dialogue? Why are they instead hiring fake Bishops and taking church
groups to further embarrass the Church? Why are they embarking on a vicious
media war against CAN and the Church instead of seeking reconciliation? Truly,
things are not adding up.
“We see this ticket as an assent to the current and
continuing educational, economic and political marginalization of the Northern
Nigerian Christians.
“This scenario is what we find in all agencies of
governments in the north. Therefore, we view this Muslim Muslim ticket as an
extension of this practice of exclusion to the uppermost level of government.
“Christians all over the country see this Muslim Muslim
ticket as a deliberate and premeditated attempt to introduce and firmly
entrench religion into the politics of this country. This, of course, will lead
to further disharmony in the hitherto fragile coexistence of the Nigerian
society, disrupt peace and hamper both social and economic development of the
country.”
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