Under the auspices of North-Central Progressives Youth (NCPY), youths of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have described the party’s Muslim-Muslim Presidency as a sectional national ideology.
The youths made this clear during a protest that began at the Unity Fountain and ended at the Presidential Villa.
Musa Attah, President of the NCPY, told reporters that the choice of former Governor of Borno State Kashim Shettima as the party’s Vice Presidential candidate was incorrect.
Attah also stated that Shettima’s selection would be detrimental to the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, in the 2023 election.
He described Tinubu as a man loved and adored by Nigerians, urging the former Lagos governor to drop Shettima as his running mate.
The NYCPY added that Tinubu has demonstrated capacity over the years and is primed to build on Buhari’s legacies.
Attah said, “Tinubu’s alliance with Shettima may just be his undoing. In the face of unprecedented disunity, the same-faith ticket is a disregard for the country’s fragility and would further polarise the nation. Sections 14 and 15 of the Constitution talk about Federal Character. The question is, does the choice of a Muslim-Muslim ticket fit into that Federal Character? As they say in law, you can’t come to equity without clean hands. He who wants equity must do equity. Is there equity in that Muslim-Muslim choice?
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“The rejection of the same-faith ticket should not be seen as Christian objection but a protest by every Nigerian in favour of democracy which guarantees freedom of choice, freedom of expression, and freedom of worship. Nigeria is a secular state. Our forefathers were aware of this even before they designed the Constitution. And in making these choices, we must be sensitive to the sensibilities of the people. It shouldn’t be lorded over the people, to whom the power belongs.
“A Muslim-Muslim Presidency would mean a sectional national ideology to replace the liberty upon which Nigeria was established as a country. With Shettima, the APC is implying that Christians in the North are of no consequence in the scheme of things. We have a huge Christian population in the North-East and North-West. In the North-Central, the Christians are dominant. This is why Shettima must vacate this position.”
