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No need to be political in a faceless forum. She has just described the northern Muslims as religious bigots

budaatum:
Stupid, maybe, but the fact her husband got elected on a Southern Muslim and Northern Muslim platform does prove she has a point. As for religious bigotry, I'm certain you are describing the majority Nigerians.

It might have been harder for a Tinubu win if he'd chosen a Christian as his running mate, as Northern Muslims might not have voted for him even if that Christian mate were from the North. But I'm certain we'd see the results of various permutations in the future sometime to see how it plays out.

Eriokanmi:
I don't agree. How many Muslims are there in ekiti where tinubu had also won?what of Ogun, Ondo and Oyo states ? It's not as if he didn't get votes in lagos but lagos, being a cosmopolitan state and well-exposed, we didn't vote based on bigotry.

More Christians voted tinubu in the south than those Muslims who did same in the north. The majority of Northern Muslims voted atiku instead,check it. Imagine tinubu losing core Northern states to atiku. Remi lied as usual. Christians outnumber Muslims in Nigeria and not debatable. Only Kano has the largest number of Muslims in the north and you cant compare it with lagos population. Muslims in Kaduna are mainly in the northern part of Kaduna. The largest population of the southern Kaduna people are Christians. In adamawa, if i tell you Christians outnumber Muslims, would you agree?

Remove ilorin Muslims from kwara, what you have left is mixed in the state. Niger,.like the majority of the core northern states is only big in land mass and less in population. I'm a core Nigerian and have been everywhere

Somebody once debated that 85% of Yoruba are muslims & even argued that only Ekiti state has a substantial number of christians in the southwest while the rest are overwhelmingly Muslims.

How true is that?

See wetin this bany de talk.....

Na true?

Moneyyman:
Do you see how stupid this sounds?

You are essentially saying that the Muslims (mostly the northern Muslims) won't vote e or Christian VP, especially if he's from the North!!!

That means the decision is not political but driven by religious bigotry!

See how stupid her explanations sounds.

It sounds stupid in your ears because you don't want to hear the truth. Lol. APC stakeholders wanted winning and they didn't need to give a Bleep about your feeling because you too had your interest in someone else. It is a game and who plays it better wins. So, chill

E for better

TossTos:
Na im be say make we turn Nigeria to Muslim country be that .. so Christian too will go an create another country be that

Christians are more in Nigeria than Muslim

Sentiment doesn’t win in politics. You deal with facts and numbers. Politics is all about winning. Why do you think some countries vote for someone you would never expect to win on moral grounds? Politics isn’t based on your personal sense of right or wrong; it’s based on interests.


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Zonefree:
See what a Pastor is saying?


Shame on RCCG!

Not religious bigots but like the Christian Ibo, their interests align with someone of their own religion. However, as it is well known but which most of you continuously deny, the Muslim North out number the Christian South. So, any serious politician that wants the vote of the North knows he has to include them.

123papas:
No need to be political in a faceless forum. She has just described the northern Muslims as religious bigots

Your head dey there! Every party is at liberty to choose whoever they want. No one is stopping a Christian from having a Christian running mate. Infact, it would.make the elections more interesting.

harqinhola:
If you believe she isn't making sense, then perhaps you're not thinking logically. Take a moment to consider that the Muslim-Muslim ticket worked for Tinubu, which serves as sufficient evidence to support her argument. If you disagree, let's pair Peter Obi with a Christian from the North to compare the outcomes.

Moneyyman:
Do you see how stupid this sounds?

You are essentially saying that the Muslims (mostly the northern Muslims) won't vote e or Christian VP, especially if he's from the North!!!

That means the decision is not political but driven by religious bigotry!

See how stupid her explanations sounds.

Tell yourself the truth, you as a Christian you can pick someone a Moslem in the north but a Muslim south can't if you want votes. We are practicing politics of religion as well in Nigeria. Unless you want to deceive yourselves. In Nigeria you will only succeed when you approach issues with reality and tell yourself the truth. If not, you will remain there forever. You will just continue grumbling for life.

They aren't. It's just that most christians shy away from politics because they feel it is worldly. However, I don't expect such a statement from her.

anonimi:
What capacity to deliver has Tinubu shown in Lagos if he increased budget and revenue 100 times over the past 27 years but failed to make water available to all households?

What is good about delivering shitty, smelling, disgraceful water that gives kwashiorkor belly to people? Is this what being a city boy means




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

Why are youwasting your data these much talking nonsense?

What has obi your ndi efu ever delivered in his life? Nothing, so I'm supporting Tinubu even beyond 2031 and you have no right to question my stand so pls mechionu and face your front.

Who are you(bu onye)?

I thought this woman was intelligent. But now I can see her level of reasoning. I think I'm overreacting people in this life.

Uptheante:
Somebody once debated that 85% of Yoruba are muslims & even argued that only Ekiti state has a substantial number of christians in the southwest while the rest are overwhelmingly Muslims.

How true is that?

Osun is majority Christian. More than half of the population is in Ife Ijesa and the zone is majority Christian. The other zones still have Christians. In the nineteenth century there were many Muslims in Yoruba land but nowadays we have more Christians including hundreds of thousands bearing Muslim names. The SW is clearly majority Christian nowadays. The NC too is majority Christian. Benue, Plateau and Kogi are mainly Christian with Benue and Plateau almost 100 percent The NW will struggle to have ninety percent Muslim because of Kaduna while the NE may have a slight majority of Muslim. The SE and SS are more than ninety percent Christian. However the NW population maybe up to the NE and NC combined while the SW population is also up to SE and SS combined.

HIGHESTPOPORI:
Nigeria Christian politicians have sold themselves for money.Buhari did 8years a Muslim,now Muslim Muslim ticket and they want power to go to the North in 2031.

I wonder why you people always think religion or tribe when thinking of whom to support. And you same people will still scream "WE ONLY VOTE BASED ON COMPETENCE". Is it that you lot just love fooooling yourselves?

This st*p*d woman always talking nonsense without facts.

iwaeda:
https://gazettengr.com/muslims-are-more-than-christians-in-nigeria-remi-tinubu-justifies-husbands-muslim-muslim-ticket/

So why did a Christian Muslim ticket win the so called Muslim Muslim ticket to the extent that only an obvious mindless rigging was their only resort.

Dalohad:
Buhari- Muslim did 8 years,

Tinubu with his Muslim-muslim tickets wants to do 8 years

They want 16 years of unbroken Muslim rule in a Nigeria that has the highest population of Catholics in Africa, biggest Pentecostal churches in the world?

It will not happen..

Christian Biafrans separatists lobbying the US Government will intensifying their lobbying with this statement.
This statement shows that they have a good case..

This is why I said that it's the Igbos who are keeping Christianity alive in Nigeria. Imagine her saying this when the third biggest ethnic group in Nigeria is nearly 100% Christian! What will happen to the remaining Christians when the Igbos?

123papas:
No need to be political in a faceless forum. She has just described the northern Muslims as religious bigots

Does it matter? Should we care? The whole of South East Christians also proved to us that they are ethnic bgots by giving Obi 100% of their entire votes. And they equally remind us that they are religious bgots too by threatening Muslims among them and also saying that no one can practise Islam in south east

MrSly:
So why did a Christian Muslim ticket win the so called Muslim Muslim ticket to the extent that only an obvious mindless rigging was their only resort.

Rigging is part of election most times and you have to take it into consideration but that last election was not won by rigging. The winner had no power over INEC and independent observers say there was more rigging in the SE where he had insignificant votes. The places with low rigging are the places where the margins are not wide.

The difference between Christian and Muslim population in Nigeria is not significant. It should be remembered that Awo would have won the Presidency in 1979 with a Christian Christian ticket if the Igbo had supported him. Nobody even noticed that the combination was odd back then

Uptheante:
Somebody once debated that 85% of Yoruba are muslims & even argued that only Ekiti state has a substantial number of christians in the southwest while the rest are overwhelmingly Muslims.

How true is that?

It's a lie from the pit of helll. Oyo state is 40% Muslim. Facts are there. Osun is 47%. Ekiti Muslims are less than 3%, Ondo is 5% cos the akoko people constitute the highest number of Muslims in Ondo state. Lagos is of course a Christian dominated state. Ogun is 40% Muslim but some argued its less. Only in kwara you have up to 65% as Muslim.

In all the above, we don't discriminate when it comes to leadership.

Ngozi123:
This is why I said that it's the Igbos who are keeping Christianity alive in Nigeria. Imagine her saying this when the third biggest ethnic group in Nigeria is nearly 100% Christian! What will happen to the remaining Christians when the Igbos?

Igbos are not the third biggest group. Igbos are the biggest group in Southern Nigeria. And arguably the biggest group in Nigeria and West Africa.

There is nowhere in the world you don't find an Igbo..

Landmass does not restrict population of the Igbo..The world is their own landmass .

Dalohad:
Igbos are not the third biggest group. Igbos are the biggest group in Southern Nigeria.

The whole of Igbo land contains around 25 million people. 18 or 19 million in the SE and the rest in the SS and NC. Rivers maybe 4 or 5 million because total Rivers population is around 8 million and Delta state has less than 2 million on Igbo land. This whole space also contains millions of non Igbos. Northern Nigeria does not have more than ten percent non indigenes maybe less. Osun where I stay is not more than that. Among the non indigenes are all groups from Southern Nigeria. Igbos living on Igbo land will be around 22 million or less and Igbos living across Nigeria can not make the number up to thirty million. All non indigenes in the North will be less than ten million or thereabouts

People living in the SW are up to 55 million. In all of Yoruba land in SW, SS and NC, the population will be around seventy million and the Yoruba living there are over 60 million. Other Yoruba in other places will make the total number well over 60 million apart from the ones indigenous to Togo, Benin and Ghana.

Population of NW is over 60 million.

Most Igbos overrate the population of Igbos and it brings problems. Calabar or Ijaw don't overrate themselves for instance and therefore no problems. Igbos are plenty but they are a distant third to the Hausa and Yoruba or is there any data to show they are not a distant third?

lawani:
The whole of Igbo land contains around 25 million people. 18 or 19 million in the SE and the rest in the SS and NC. Rivers maybe 4 or 5 million because total Rivers population is around 8 million and Delta state has less than 2 million on Igbo land. This whole space also contains millions of non Igbos. Northern Nigeria does not have more than ten percent non indigenes maybe less. Osun where I stay is not more than that. Among the non indigenes are all groups from Southern Nigeria. Igbos living on Igbo land will be around 22 million or less and Igbos living across Nigeria can not make the number up to thirty million. All non indigenes in the North will be less than ten million or thereabouts

People living in the SW are up to 55 million. In all of Yoruba land in SW, SS and NC, the population will be around seventy million and the Yoruba living there are over 60 million. Other Yoruba in other places will make the total number well over 60 million apart from the ones indigenous to Togo, Benin and Ghana.

Population of NW is over 60 million.

Most Igbos overrate the population of Igbos and it brings problems. Calabar or Ijaw don't overrate themselves for instance and therefore no problems. Igbos are plenty but they are a distant third to the Hausa and Yoruba or is there any data to show they are not a distant third?

You only wrote from an angle of emotionalism without proper foundation with verifiable facts. You were just pulling out figures and statistics from thin air, like someone who argues at newspaper stands at Molete bus stop in Ibadan.

Do you know why we have not done a proper census with Ethnicity and religion included as factors since the end of the civil war?

Find out or come back back for a proper lecture..

I'm an Assistant Professor, and I am sure that I have more information than you do.

You are the one practicing politics of religion!

I supported Yaradua even as a Christian.

I supported Namadi Sambo taking over from Jonathan due to Jonathan's incompetence (as a short-term resort until elections came, at least).

Again, you are the one practicing politics of religion, not me!

DEMOO07:
Tell yourself the truth, you as a Christian you can pick someone a Moslem in the north but a Muslim south can't if you want votes. We are practicing politics of religion as well in Nigeria. Unless you want to deceive yourselves. In Nigeria you will only succeed when you approach issues with reality and tell yourself the truth. If not, you will remain there forever. You will just continue grumbling for life.

Of course I understand why they did it and I don't blame them. My grouse is: THAT DECISION WAS BASED ON RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY!!! And they should own up to it, not sneak that "win" behind any political jargon.

maasoap:
It sounds stupid in your ears because you don't want to hear the truth. Lol. APC stakeholders wanted winning and they didn't need to give a Bleep about your feeling because you too had your interest in someone else. It is a game and who plays it better wins. So, chill

I am not bitter. It is the same way I mentioned that Obi will have a hard time (even as an Obi supporter) simply because the largely Muslim North will flock to a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

It isn't bitterness when I ask them to simply acknowledge that they played the religious card, and to stop hiding behind "political game" nonsense.

HeroicMeastro:
Why are you bitter about the truth?

They think Nigerians are blind, yet they're the blind ones.

It is just like in Kogi state where Igalas were governor's since the inception, and the governor's were all Muslims.

Now, other tribes are out saying it isn't fair (which I agree), but the governors from other tribes have also been Muslims.

If you want to push for fairness, why not push for a Christian governor from another tribe too? They'll quickly say it's politics but that decision is based on religious bigotry, where the Muslims won't want a Christian as governor, yet.

ayo2008:
Very stupid
Only bigots we support this statement