Muslim youths of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have rejected former Borno State Governor Senator Kashim Shettima as the running mate to Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, the leader of the APC Muslim youths, Abdullahi Saleh, asked the party’s presidential candidate to replace Shettima with a Christian political leader or cleric from the North.

While stating that they reject a Muslim-Muslim ticket, Saleh admitted that Tinubu reserves the right to make decisions regarding his choice of running mate.

He said the group finds it worrisome that such a decision could be taken without recourse to its implication on the party’s electoral chances and the attendant uproar such a decision could bring about in the country.

“It is also worrisome that of all the country’s political parties, only the APC presented a Muslim-Muslim ticket. In our opinion, this is insensitive and a gross display of a lack of respect for our Christian brothers and sisters,” the APC Muslim youths leader said.

“This is on the heels that the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is a Muslim from South West Nigeria, and picking another Muslim from the northern part of the country as his running mate is politically and morally indefensible.


“We hold the firm conviction that such a move can boomerang with unpleasant consequences for the APC at the general elections, hence the need for the party’s leadership to make haste to correct this error of judgment.”

Speaking further, he noted that there are credible candidates with rich credentials and with massive grassroots following in the north that can complement the presidential ticket of the APC.

Saleh said the 19 APC states Northern Muslims Forum sees the selection of Senator Kashim Shettima as an aberration that should be corrected with immediate effect by the relevant authorities within the party.


“The implication of non-action in this regard can only be imagined, so much so that the majority of the eligible voters in Northern Nigeria have elected to boycott the APC in protest of the disrespect and disregard to Northern Christians, whose population and relevance in the scheme of things in the region cannot be overemphasized.

“As a group, we wish to state unequivocally that we reject the choice of Senator Kashim Shettima as the vice presidential candidate of the APC.
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“This decision is hinged on the need to ensure a balance in the presidential ticket of the APC, as it has been since the return of democracy in 1999.

“The APC must respect the religious diversity of the country. We hold the opinion that emphasis must be placed on ensuring a united house before the elections and not a fragmented house,” he added

The group urged President Muhammadu Buhari and Tinubu to replace the vice presidential candidate of the APC with a Christian.

They stated that the ruling party must not be perceived as promoting a religious agenda by fielding a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

The APC Muslim youths describe the Muslim-Muslim ticket as a recipe for the entrenchment of mutual suspicion between the Muslims and the Christians in the country, which won’t augur well for relative peace and tranquillity.

“We consequently say no to a Muslim-Muslim ticket by the APC. We call on President Muhammadu Buhari to kindly intervene to save the party from an electoral crisis. We urge Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to emulate the example of President Muhammadu Buhari in the choice of his running mate in the 2015 and 2019 presidential elections,” he said.


Source: https:///Muslim-Muslim-Ticket-APC-Muslim-Youths-Reject-Shettima-Issues-Directive-To-Buhari-Tinubu

Every sensible person have rejected the evil combination. Truly who the gods wants to destroy they first make mad. Tinubu's political end is near.

This is risible to say the least, it appears Tinubu is still living in the past.

How can any serious minded candidate do such thing in this age and time

The party could've just saved themselves all these earlier enough

The entire country reject batsheit

Same faith ticket is unreasonable and insensitive in Nigeria of today either Muslim Muslim ticket or Christian Christian ticket. Nigeria is neither Zamfara state nor Rivers state and this is not Nigeria of 1993. They call Tinubu a political strategy but he don't know this simple truth. Shame on him.

God forbid BATting

Fellow Nigerians,

There is power in a Name.
Please always make sure you name your child a name that will guide and protect the destiny that you wish for them.
Most times when nature wants to give you a sign, Nature uses Natural ways to communicate with you, random acts of nature is where to look at if you want to see if YOUR GOD is talking to you. Things like random animals, weather, random responses from people next to you.

Do you know that Tinubus full Name is Ahmed Bola Asiwaju Tinubu. To choose an acronym for his campaign he could have choosen ABAT or TABA or AABT etc. Rather they removed one of his name and are going with BAT. This is not a mistake but rather a big Sign from Nature. Lets get into that name BAT.

A bat is more like a dog with wings, that is only when active in the night, feeds on a mosquito that sucks human blood and sleeps upside down. Bats have been associated with abomination since the beginning of time. Europeans know it as the origin of Vampires. In modern medicine, bats are known as the source of incurable venerable diseases of pandemic proportions, the coronavirus that has wiped out almost 10 million people in 2 years.

This country has had a rough 8 years and a man who chose to call himself a BAT is planning on taking over. Please open your eyes, the catastrophe that is about to befall us will be of Pandemic Proportions. Nature has given you a sign and warned you. Will you listen?