The immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Yakubu Dogara has warned Christians in the country not to waste their votes in the forth-coming 2023 general elections, saying that the adoption of the same faith Presidential and Vice-president Ticket by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the nation is antithetical to Nigeria’s quest for nation building.

Dogara who spoke on Tuesday in Abuja at a summit tagged “Meet the Church” organized by the Nigerian National Christians Coalition (NNCC) with the theme; “The role of the Church in Nation Building” stated that every Christian knows that God does not tolerate waste and as such, It is unchristian for the church to waste anything given to them from above.

He argued that the APC ignored warnings by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Catholic Secretariat, ECWA Church and many other church bodies and adopted the same faith ticket in a manner that negated the fundamentals of nation building, such as shared identity, values and vision.

“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.”

“In their convoluted posturing, they 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 endeavour 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.

“To this end, it will be easy to generate the needed elite consensus that is key to nation-building. All nations are built by elite consensus while all countries that failed at nation-building were destroyed by elite complacency.

“Granted that the Christians and Muslims will always disagree on some issues, there are, however, many things over which we are agreeable. It is enough to forge ahead with the task of nation-building based on those common issues we agree on. It must be noted that just as Muslims alone cannot build a nation out of Nigeria so also Christians alone cannot. We have to work together on “nation formations”, he said.

Dogara commended the church in the country for shaking off the beast of the complacency of the past into fire by speaking up and resisting measures adopted by some political platforms that will hamper nation-building.

floret23:
Muslim-terrorist ticket is dead on arrival. No honest person irrespective of religion would surpport such a satanic combo from despicable and desperate drug baron. Tinubu ti lu'le

Nyamuri:
We are voting for it and there is nothing you can do about it!! The likes of Dogara etc should decamp naw, is it by force!

nightfox01:
From your moniker it's obvious you are tribalistic and btw there is something we can do with our pvc

Nyamuri:
We also have PVC! Guy forget, PO will never rule this country! The earlier u know the better... in the core north, nobody knows him

floret23:


https://independent.ng/apcs-muslim-muslim-ticket-antithetical-to-nationa-building-dogara/

nightfox01:
The core north is for atiku and tinubu to share any learned Southerner whether west or east know the man for the job APC Muslim Muslim ticket is God final destruction on them

Kagd10:
See Dogara talking.. The same Dogara whom Tinubu helped. Point is can Dogara win his local government?

Shettima can win his state for APC for example. The only Christian Northerner in APC who's got political clout is Lalong. If his Plateau people can say they will vote for APC, maybe he can be considered.

ElSudani:
Retrogressive thinking. Do you preach sermons in the Federal executive council?

asanausana91:
okay, we will see if the northern Muslims will vote for Tinubu against Atiku. Any Christian that votes for a Muslim Muslim ticket will receive a generational curses in his family.
This is an insult of the highest order.
Tinubu said Lalong is incompetent but he has the gut to appoint him as campaign DG.
Muslim Muslim ticket will never scale through.

lhordspy:
It is no longer news that Both yakubu dogara and babachir ahmed are pained souls.

And it is even laughable that a politically non-influencial cry baby like Yakubu dogara is the one championing religious sentimentalism and bigotry all around the country because tinubu was wise enough to see through his double-faced self deceptive aboki-head, and opted for Kashim shetima as running mate instead of the !diots.

Listen to me well, Dogara. You can crawl all around through the christian bodies we have in Nigeria, you can even go and try convincing the POPE that tinubu is bad or try instigating them on religious bases. That wont make you any less inconsequential in this present Nigeria political space.

You can keep putting on the charades, and capitalizing on the tense politicking season to look for a new buyer for your non-existing political value, which is next-to-zero by way. Atiku wont even look your side because he knows how valueless and a self-centered religious bigot you are. Even Peter obi hasnt even looked your way too, peter also knows he Yakubu has nothing to offer politically, No northern political influence,No southern political influence. Except going from one churches to the other cry and wailing about muslim-muslim ticket while he goes back home and hide in the corner of his room crying about Tinubu not making him a running mate.


Werey dey disguise . Your tears are delicious, yakubu.

dajo83:

The truth is tunubu Muslim/Muslim ticket is working for him because I thought Yoruba christian will oppose it but they are all behind tunubu. Had it been is christian/christian ticket, Yoruba Muslims would have against it. Especially

dajo83:

The truth is tunubu Muslim/Muslim ticket is working for him because I thought Yoruba christian will oppose it but they are all behind tunubu. Had it been is christian/christian ticket, Yoruba Muslims would have against it. Especially

Nyamuri:
We also have PVC! Guy forget, PO will never rule this country! The earlier u know the better... in the core north, nobody knows him

asanausana91:
okay, we will see if the northern Muslims will vote for Tinubu against Atiku. Any Christian that votes for a Muslim Muslim ticket will receive a generational curses in his family.
This is an insult of the highest order.
Tinubu said Lalong is incompetent but he has the gut to appoint him as campaign DG.
Muslim Muslim ticket will never scale through.

Newton2024:
Tribalistic thing. We Yoruba Christian are never going to vote Druggie-Terrorist ticket. It is a gross insult you muhamMadians can never tolerate. Your surpport for muslim-terrorist ticket shows you are biased, insincere and dishonest.

asanausana91:
mumu, why not Muslim Christian ticket? Is there anything the Muslims are planning?

Newton2024:
Tribalistic thing. We Yoruba Christian are never going to vote Druggie-Terrorist ticket. It is a gross insult you muhamMadians can never tolerate. Your surpport for muslim-terrorist ticket shows you are biased, insincere and dishonest.