₦airaland Forum

Chinjo2:
Wike is a very bad looser. Simply because he lost election he has decided to rock the boat. If he is man enough let him defect to APC and face the greatest humiliation of his life. Foolish man.

Jogs1900:
Yet he went to church for Thanksgiving.Hes from a Muslim home hence the Nurudeen he bears but he practices Christianity.

Afamed:
2023 is a game of votes and not insult. We will get votes and overlook the insult

Jogs1900:
By Farooq Kperogi

Twitter: @farooqkperogi

Just as a lot of the Muslims who endorse APC's Muslim-Muslim president ticket would declare a jihad against a Christian-Christian presidential ticket by a ruling party, a lot of the Christians who oppose a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket would praise a Christian-Christian presidential ticket as evidence of progress, of religious tolerance, and of the praiseworthy deemphasis of religion in politics.


You know how I know this? I’ve noticed that some of the very people who’re having fits of hysterical rage over APC’s Muslim-Muslim ticket are celebrating the “religious tolerance” that Osun PDP’s "Christian-Christian" ticket symbolizes, particularly because Osun is a predominantly Muslim state.

(For the record Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke is BOTH a Christian and a Muslim. Let's just call him a "Chrislim"�)

For good measure, they throw around the sterile, mendacious cliché about religion being immaterial in Yorubaland in light of the religious ecumenicalism of the people.


Well, if religion is immaterial in Yorubaland, why would an effectively non-religious but nominal Muslim Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s choice of a northern Muslim running mate rankle so many Christians in the region this deeply?


Until recently, Tinubu didn’t even identify with Islam publicly, is married to a pastor, and ALL his children are Christians. He sees himself first as a Yoruba man before he is a nominal Muslim.


Apparently, religion “doesn’t matter” in Yorubaland only when Muslims are rendered invisible there. Then it suddenly matters when they enjoy some visibility.


Even though Muslims constitute more than 50 percent of Yorubaland's population, there will not be a single Muslim governor there after Adeleke is sworn in. (I'm sure the people of Osun who voted against their incompetent governor who happens to be a Muslim don't care, but since religion has now been centralized in political discourse we need to point this out).


The people who fought for a “Christian” governor of Lagos State (so much for “religion doesn’t matter in Yoruba land”!) would celebrate the current state of affairs as evidence of the “religious harmony in Yorubaland.”


Consequence-free invisibilization of Muslims in their region is their definition of religious “harmony.” Harmony comes when different notes synchronize, but their own harmony comes the same note!


The hypocrisy of the religious fanatics of all faiths is galling. The supreme irony is that it’s often headless, irrational fanatics who’re quick to call others bigots and fanatics for calling out their bigotry and fanaticism.

https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2022/07/osuns-christian-christian-ticket-apcs.html?m=1

agbadocaptin:
Mole in the party

seunmsg:
The victory of Dapo Abiodun and all APC candidates in Ogun state is a done deal.

Afamed:
The fulani slave has spoken

Ruggedniggaone:
wike boy nothing for you and your oga, wike is free to decamp to any party of his choice, pdp is not wike father property he will not be allowed to have his way this time around, Ayu will resign after elections I swear wike and his gang madness won't affect Atiku victory I'm glad he is going to work for tinubu so let see how he is going to tell his people confidentially that they should vote Muslim Muslim ticket

dyera:
Where is the sauce?

Afamed:
The real Unifire unable to unifier his party

A former Minister of Aviation Osita Chidoka says Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won’t apologise over his Yoruba and Igbo president comment.
The former vice president had in a recent gathering advised northerners to vote for someone from the region in next year’s general election.

What the average Northerner needs is somebody who’s from the North and also understands that part of the country and has been able to build bridges across the country,” the PDP presidential candidate said.

This is what the Northerner needs. It doesn’t need a Yoruba or Igbo candidate. I stand before you as a pan-Nigerian of northern origin.

No Apologies!

The comment had generated heated debates and condemnations from several quarters but Chidoka maintained that Atiku does not need to apologize for the remark.

“I think we need to move beyond these political gimmicks and political gimmickry that goes on when people say one thing, we turn it the other way round and we use it for political ends. The point he is making is a very clear point – that we need a Nigerian president, somebody that would unify the country, will understand the issues, and be able to solve them.

So, I don’t think that it is a statement that warrants any apologies or discussions. It is for Vice President Atiku to continue to explain himself to the public. We still have four months in the campaign so he needs to go out and explain his agenda that he is a Nigerian president that is desirous of making sure that all parts of Nigeria feel wanted in Nigeria, and feel united.
He needs to unify the country to be able to propose the difficult solutions that must be applied to make this economy and the country work again.

The PDP chieftain described the debates generated by Atiku’s comment as “unfortunate”.

TheSameGuy:
Emeka, rest.

leokid866:
he lost his senatorial seat when he decided to run for governor.....he was in the Senate for less than a year.......you can't hold one elective position to run for another fail and feel you can just come back to your previous position.....once campaign starts inec will consider your seat vacant......so he can't even come out to say he did anything for Osun as a senator........if he had sense he should have just stayed in the Senate.

omokab:
the highest he can get this time around is 25-30% of total vote. Bet me!

Amotolongbo:
What is the outcome of the other faction ?

qekng40:
Osun state is for the Adelekes! They own it!