MUCH ADO ABOUT THE MUSLIM-MUSLIM TICKET!

To my mind, the drive for Muslim-Christian ticket appears to reduce Christians in Nigeria to second-class citizens, sounds more like a battle cry of the defeated and helpless. Christians who clamour for the office of the Vice President, invariably suggest that they have accepted and are contented with or helpless about the handing over of Nigeria’s Presidency to another Muslim, eight years after President Buhari.

In my considered view, the Muslim-Muslim brouhaha is mere symptoms of the problem, the kernel of which is the handing over to another Muslim President, eight years after the reign of a President who is a Muslim. A Muslim-Muslim presidential transition simply amounts to the furtherance of what Ex-President Obasanjo aptly describes as “Fulanisation and Islamisation” of Nigeria.

The Guardian editorial of 17th June 2022 observed that Nigerians of the Christian faith rightly believe that they have suffered more than any other group from the insurgency, terrorism, kidnapping, raping and outright killings that have become the order of the day “particularly in the last seven years of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.” Fairness is not just for a Christian to be made Vice President immediately after Prof Yemi Osinbajo who has been in that office for the seventh of the eighth possible years.

Christian in Nigeria should not settle for or even bother about a Muslim-Christian ticket in 2023, to me it has little or no difference with Muslim-Muslim ticket because both scenarios promote a presidential transition from President Buhari to another Muslim President. Consistent with the letter and spirit of Sections 14(3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 to promote national unity and also to command national loyalty, what amounts to fairness in my considered view is for the political parties to respect our collective religious sensibilities by working for the emergence for a Southern Christian to succeed President Buhari.

In this circumstance, to any true lover for the continued cooperate existence of one Nigeria, “the OBIdient” option (burrowing from Gov Obaseki) inevitably becomes a duty, a very viable, reasonable, responsible and justifiable one irrespective of our political party affiliations. A Christian from the South (preferably South-East) should take over from President Buhari.

I have no iota of doubt in my mind that either a Southern Christian becomes Nigeria's President in 2023 or we inch closer, slowly but surely to fulfilling the long-term but well-documented goal of individuals like President Buhari, who by words and deeds have never hidden their wish to make Nigeria an Islamic State.
- Bitrus Kaze -

Personally, I don't want Tinubu disqualified from this race. The man needs to be retired in a disgracing style!
Amaechi, Osibanjo will pull more weight than him!

Obidient4life:
Personally, I don't want Tinubu disqualified from this race. The man needs to be retired in a disgracing style!
Amaechi, Osibanjo will pull more weight than him!

Exactly