Ibekimi Oriamaja Reports.
The Nigerian Agenda for Inclusion, a pro-democracy group, has challenged Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate in the 2023 election, to put the Muslim community in Lagos state to the test with a Christian-Christian ticket.
TNAI said in a statement issued on Thursday by its Co-Convener, Alexander Obisesan,
described Lagos as a reflection of religious diversity in Nigeria and an ideal location for Tinubu to test the “alternative reality of his hasty decision to run on a Christian-Christian ticket.”
“The APC presidential candidate’s supporters are putting together all manner of disingenuous narratives when they could easily test the alternative reality of their agenda in Lagos,” the statement said.
“Alhaji Bola Tinubu is the APC’s godfather in Lagos; he is in a strong position to field a Christian-Christian ticket to put the state’s Muslim community to the test as the first line of defense against his insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity.”
“If former Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu couldn’t even raise the prospect of a Christian-Christian ticket in his home state of Lagos, which is more secular and diverse, why is he considering such a divisive option for Nigeria?”
“Lagos has a history of a Muslim-Muslim regime under the Jakande-jafojo administration,” says Tinubu, “but that situation has changed dramatically because the man Tinubu supported for power in 2015 has deeply polarised the country along religious lines.”
“In addition, the APC has made a repeat of 1993 in Nigeria impossible by widening Nigeria’s fault lines and deepening the ethnoreligious divide among Nigerians.”
“We will appeal to our people in the South-West to set aside sentiment for the sake of the country as a whole, because it has never worked for the people of the North-West in the last seven years.”
“We want Nigerians to think about Tinubu’s consistent marginalization of Christians: he wanted a Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2015; when APC won, he chose a Muslim-Muslim arrangement in both chambers of the National Assembly, but he failed.”
“When Tinubu was re-elected in 2019, he openly advocated for Muslim-Muslim leadership of the National Assembly, including an arrangement that guaranteed a Muslim-Muslim Speaker and Deputy Speaker when the President is a Muslim.”
“Asiwaju Tinubu’s most recent high-level insensitivity toward the Christian community did not begin with his choice of a Muslim vice candidate; he was persuaded to field Gov Akinwumi Ambode, a Christian, after he and Babatunde Fashola had spent 16 years together as Muslims, but never wanted to,” the statement continued.
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