The All Progressives Congress (APC) has committed sacrilege by deciding to foist the Muslim-Muslim Ticket on a multi-religious and pluralistic society like Nigeria. One might wonder where such audacity is coming from if not from the strange silence from Nigeria’s Christian leaders including the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) who have yet to speak up against this atrocious aberration of the Muslim-Muslim ticket pulled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the presidential election.

Several questions run through the minds of rational beings: What has changed in the last few months? Is it possible that we will all wake up one day to learn that Nigeria has been transformed into an Islamic Republic? Some say it’s impossible.

Allow me to laugh for a moment. We know some people who argued over their ancestral graves that the APC will never run a same-faith ticket. It’s now happening while we’re fully awake!

Professor Wole Soyinka famously noted in his prison notes, THE MAN DIED, that silence is not always golden in the face of injustice. “The man dies in all who keeps silent in the face of tyranny,” wrote the Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1986. My question for Professor Osinbajo is why he chose to remain silent in the face of the APC’s blatant acts of tyranny?

According to reports, Osinbajo had previously spoken out against the imposition of the Muslim-Muslim ticket. It is also believed that he was not yet Vice President at the time. But why is he now keeping quiet now that he is the country’s vice president? It’s difficult to make sense of this!

It is no longer news that most Nigerians have lost hope in the country’s foremost body, Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN) for obvious reasons, the body has allegedly been accused of compromise, being politicized and somehow kept quiet.

Prominent pastors like E.A. Adeboye, Itua Ighodalo, David Oyedepo, Matthew Asimolowo, W.F. Kumuyi, etc have, surprisingly, decided to hide into their shells on this sacrilege of a ruling party!

This is a shame to say the least, cowardice has suddenly eaten deep into certain leaders who have followers looking up to them for direction and a safe environment.

A few Christian leaders, like Bishop Wale Oke the PFN National President Bishop has said the association will mobilise against the Muslim-Muslim ticket because “it is against the principles of fairness, balance, equity and justice.”

With few bold persons like Oke coming up, one hopes this Muslim-Muslim ticket issue will inspire people like Osinbajo who God put in a position of power and normally has been known to stand up for what is just.

Osinbajo failing to publicly address the issue and call a spade a spade begs the question whether posterity will be kind to all who have kept mute for personal and selfish reasons knowing the danger this aberration will cause now and in the nearest future. Are people selling their souls to worldly and earthly negotiations in order to remain in power? Or is there another reason one can guess for the silence?

This will never happen in the Islamic religion, Osinbajo and our dear Christian leaders should be asked a question and the question is: if Christian-Christian ticket can ever see the light of the day in Nigeria?

The Islamic leaders are not cowards, they will not run for what they believe is injustice.

A regime where all political powers are in the hands of Muslims in Nigeria, where about half of the population is Christian, is a recipe for disaster, as it is now in Lebanon.

For those who don’t know, 61% of Lebanon’s population is Muslim, while 33.7% is Christian. Christians used to wield significant political power until the 1990s, when Islamists seized complete control of the country. Until now, the persecution of Christians in Lebanon has been unabated. If the APC gets its way on February 25, Lebanon will be a farce if the Church does nothing drastic.

To begin, Osinbajo must realise that history will not be kind to him if he is quiet now that he is in power, bringing back your past interventions would not suffice later, we are watching and you have not said anything against the Muslim Muslim ticket as the current Vice President of Nigeria.

Some analysts argue that Osinbajo will accept this because APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu allegedly appointed him Vice President in 2015. Does this imply that the vice president has agreed to become an APC stooge? Will prosperity then forgive the pastor for betraying millions of Nigerian Christians in their hour of need?

Let no one fool you faithful Christians, your spiritual Christian leaders failed you abysmally.

Osinbajo should keep in mind that Nigerians will call on him when the negative impacts of the Muslim Muslim ticket kicks in and causes massive religious divide, but he will not be in power by then. So, your excellency, do what you can do now and at least register your opinion on the role that fairness and equity plays in all of this injustice called the Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Newton2024:
We yoruba Christians will never vote Tinubu on Muslim-Muslim ticket because we are not fools. When MURIC terrorists told Yoruba Muslims not to vote Yoruba Christians, they all agree.

Buckeyemedia1:
We have heard you Ipobian Newton2024 for how many months now? please vote for your Catholic & Muslim ticket. Thank You.

We have chosen to vote for the fake & real Muslim ticket.

Malory:
May Ogun destroy any Yoruba man that will vote for a Muslim Muslim ticket. It represents evil.

Buckeyemedia1:
We have heard you Ipobian Newton2024 for how many months now? please vote for your Catholic & Muslim ticket. Thank You.

We have chosen to vote for the fake & real Muslim ticket.

floret23:
"We cannot appoint Pablo Escobar as president and Osama bin Laden as vice president," -- Senator Dino Melaye.

Buckeyemedia1:
We have heard you Ipobian Newton2024 for how many months now? please vote for your Catholic & Muslim ticket. Thank You.

We have chosen to vote for the fake & real Muslim ticket.

Urheadmaster:
You'll agree with yourself the votes for tulubo and shittima is votes wasted out of your ignorance .

Igba123:
@op it's like you've not been going to church. what the church leaders say to their members is different from what they say before the camera. Before the camera is political correctness while behind the camera is pure truth which is their original mandate from God to the flock.

Buckeyemedia1:
May the gods of Arochukwu destroy any Ipobian thing that will vote for a Catholic with Muslim running mate, why must he choose someone from the tribe raping our women & stopping them from going to the farm?

Malory:
Try another wack line. This one didn't fly.

Racoon:
If MURIC and muslim urchins and miscreants says no to Yoruba Christian, then no sane person alive known what APC Muslim Muslim combo have done to South Kaduna should consent to the devillish Tinubu- Shettima BH terrorist kingpin VP designate combination.

Buckeyemedia1:
Wow Shameless Hypocrites, I thought you said Tinubu was a fake Muslim?

Buckeyemedia1:
But you must have felt it, to have made a response?

A leading All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, has denied endorsing a Muslim-Muslim ticket. Tinubu said the text message being circulated at the Eagles Square, the venue of APC Special Convention, was false.

He noted that the text messages were the handiwork of shameless, desperate, and misguided individuals.Tinubu’s denial was contained in a statement signed by his Media Office, and posted on his verified Twitter handle.

The message reads: “We have been informed of text messages aimed at APC delegates purportedly from Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, other candidates and party officials making various false claims about Asiwaju and the primary process.

“We have been informed of a text message going around APC delegates at Eagles Square in Abuja purportedly from Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu claiming that with his imminent victory at the APC presidential primary and emergence as the party’s presidential candidate, the APC leader has now decided on a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

This is nothing but a lie, it has no basis whatsoever.We enjoin the distinguished delegates to ignore this completely. The fake text message is a ploy by some undemocratic elements to confuse and hoodwink delegates sensing that Asiwaju àTinubu is comfortably coasting home to victory.

“There is no truth whatsoever in any of these messages. They are lies perpetrated by shameless, desperate and misguided individuals and should be ignored as such.”

Following criticisms that greeted his choice of former governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Wednesday, said he had made the hard choice.

In a statement on his verified Twitter handle, the former governor of Lagos State averred that he made the hard choice because he believed it was the best choice.

Recall that some Christians and Muslims have condemned his choice of Shettima, noting that he trampled on ‘democratic balancing’. Yesterday APC Muslim youths rejected his choice of Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate, advising him to replace the former governor of Borno with a Christian political leader or cleric from the North.

Clearing himself in a statement via Twitter handle, Jagaban opined: “This chapter in our nation’s history demands a bold yet pragmatic approach.“In selecting Senator Shettima I have committed myself to this path. I have made the hard choice because I believe it is the best choice.

“Together, we shall build this party and this nation. This is where politics must end and leadership must begin.

“True leadership is not grounded in religious pandering, populism or sentiment. To forge ahead as a nation towards development and prosperity, we must, instead, break the shackles of old thinking.”

Racoon:
If MURIC and muslim urchins and miscreants says no to Yoruba Christian, then no sane person alive known what APC Muslim Muslim combo have done to South Kaduna should consent to the devillish Tinubu- Shettima BH terrorist kingpin VP designate combination.

Newton2024:
We yoruba Christians will never vote Tinubu on Muslim-Muslim ticket because we are not fools. When MURIC terrorists told Yoruba Muslims not to vote Yoruba Christians, they all agree.

sreamsense:

See as you wasted precious time on writing lenghty note as if you truely care about Christians. At the end of the day, you are on identity fraud claiming yorubas so you can indirectly campaigning for obi. Christianity never teaches you identity fraud in the first place and beside that Yoruba Christians don't carry religion for head like you are doing especially as Tinubu is their own, they know what he can do and what he can't do.

Christians have moved on, but you are still crawling at the back because you just want something that will favour incompetent obi. You can see plenty Christians campaigning for Tinubu because they have moved on because they know Tinubu is not a wicked person. His wife is a Christian and his children are Christians. After four years, if he performs poorly especially based on religion balancing, then; Christians can have reason to unite to vote against him, but at moment you have nothing to fear except you are just particular about fixing obi somewhere