The Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by the All Progressives Congress will not guarantee peace and justice if allowed to sail through in the 2023 general elections, a human rights organisation under the aegis of Speak Up Stand Out, has said.

The organisation which was reacting to the publication of the final list of presidential candidates by the Independent National Electoral Commission, also attributed the plethora of challenges facing Nigeria
to poor leadership, bad economy and poverty.

The lead activist of SUSO, Rafiu Lawal, raised the issues during a press conference in Abuja on Friday in commemoration of the 2022 international peace day, organised in collaboration with the Africa Youth Movement and Centre for Youth Development and Advocacy.

He observed that Nigeria is faced with the scourge of violent conflict, ranging from terrorism, kidnapping for ransom, banditry, violent secessionist agitations.




Lawal said that virtually every conflict in Nigeria takes a religious and ethnic undertone not necessarily because they emerge from the faulty lines of religion and ethnicity, but rather because they are seen as a refuge with which to project individual or group differences, without consequence.


According to him, what would guarantee peace in the country is the presence of justice, social infrastructure, employment, among others.

He said, “Where we got it wrong is that the security situation didn’t start yesterday and it is as a result of failures of government over the years to put in place the blocs for peace. You don’t expect peace in a place where poverty and unemployment is about 35 per cent, where the Universities are shut down for months and where there is injustice.

“The elites are the ones enjoying all the prosperity and majority of the people are in penury. So insecurity started at a point where government refused to do what it out to do.

“In the present contest, a particular candidate has adopted same faith ticket but I think there should be sense of belonging. If the party wins, that means in the next four years, there won’t be justice. If we are advocating that the Presidency is a turn of a group, they should also know that the ticket should be inclusive with the other religion on it.”

Lawal observed that the North-West, North-East as well as the North-Central regions have remained the worst hit of insecurity crises.


Quoting a United Nations report, he disclosed that at least 1,126 people, died from armed banditry attacks between January and June in the North-West region alone, in 2020.

He said, “This is even as about 1,606 people killed in 125 fatal incidents (Global Terrorism Index, 2020), an average of 13 people per incident, suggests that Nigeria is the third-most terrorised country in the world.

“In no too distant past, we saw and still see how Southern states as well as the North Central are awash with violent farmers-herders clashes, exacerbating the tensions between the South’s predominantly Christian population and the mostly Muslim herders.

“This results in about 2,000 farmers-herders crisis related deaths being recorded annually in Nigeria (International Crisis Group). On the May 28 2021, residents of Benue state (North Central region) woke up to no fewer than 36 deaths – mostly young people, in a clash that has been between predominantly muslim herders and farmers who are predominantly Christians, taking the pattern of an ethno-religious crisis. Even yesterday.(Thursday), media reports had it that about 10 people were still killed by suspected herders in Benue State.”

While calling on Nigerians to vote wisely in 2023, Lawal stressed the need for the goverment to adopt a comprehensive security measure to tackle the menace, adding that, “we are not there yet but there is potential for us to get there. We need to adopt comprehensive security measures. We are tired of buying weapons because weapons don’t ultimately guarantee everlasting security. What will guarantee peace is social infrastructure, employment, justice among others.”


Speaking on the organisation, he said the SUSO Program is an initiative which aimed to empower young people with media and information knowledge and grassroots mobilisation skills to participate meaningfully in the socio-political development of their communities by maximising digital platforms for social mobilisation, amplifying youth voices and developing people-led campaigns on issues that affect youth and influencing policies that affect them.

Lawal said that the project is being implemented with 20 youth activists in three states (Lagos, Abuja and Enugu) and empowering these activists with the knowledge, skills and resources to organise activism to challenge issues affecting youth, develop innovative ways to engage other young people and social actors to campaign and drive social change.

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Dear southerners planning to vote for Atiku, have it in your skull that if Atiku wins ( God forbids), northerners( NE and NW) will perpetually see you as a second class citizens , meaning that they would like to retain power as long as they want and get away with it.. Can Atiku allow a southerner to succeed a fellow southerner ?



Dear Christians planning to vote for Tinubu ask yourself if Nigerian Christians are second class citizens in Nigeria?
Can Nigerian Muslims allow a Christian to succeed a fellow Christian let alone running a Christian- chrstian ticket ?

Some of you cant really see the future and see the long term effect of Atiku or Tinubu's emegence as president.. BUT GOD FORBIDS


Pls vote for equity, justice and competence come 2023..

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Enough of this Muslim Muslim discussions... Since Tinubu and his urrchins feel they can do without the votes of the northern Christian and the Christians at large, we will show them at the polls and also resist the only hope they have to win the the election which is by rigging.

The APC adopted the same faith ticket in a country that has never attained nationhood. These warnings were not only ignored but dismissed in one fell swoop by the APC presidential candidate who strangely believes that he can build a strong, secure and viable nation-state without first forging a shared identity, vision and values for our people thereby enabling us transit from citizens of a country into a nation of people with strong shared identity and values. This moves by Tinubu just for the purpose of playing religious card to win Muslim votes up North, if allowed to sail through, can only bring disunity and religious crisis in the country Nigeria.

In their convoluted posturing, APC have placed state-building ahead of nation-building; a task never before achieved in history and we need no seer to tell us that such endeavor is guaranteed to end in spectacular failure. No divided people have ever built any civilization.
To demonstrate that the church is right, it is not alone in condemning the same faith ticket. Other prominent Islamic clerics and Muslim leaders have also spoken in the same light. It is a good omen that both Christian and Muslim elites are not complacent over this matter.

Thank God, Northern Christians and other Christians across the Nigeria have a very good choice in voting Peter Obi of the Labour Party to power come 2023. Peter Obi/Ahmed Datti ticket is the only choice that can truly restore peace and unify the country.

Everyone knows this is a wrong combo!

They want to turn Nigeria to another Iran

There is no equity, fairness and justice by the mention of APC and all it represent. After next year's election,Thiefnibu and his urchins will sing a new song of Amala and ewedu Oduduwa republic with one coward Sunday Igboo

APC ticket is a conflict ridden party

Now we have Muslim-christian ticket has it guaranteed peace? Buhari-osinbajo! Mtcheeew

Tinubu and APC tun ma lule piii Lekan siii with the APC Muslim-Muslim ticket in the presidential election. As far as I’m concerned, Atiku/Okowa will win February 25th, 2023 presidential election by special Grace of Almighty God. For me and my household we are all voting enmass for Atiku/Okowa presidency.

Muslim muslim ticket would kill Nigeria..