Tomcorp:
Just give me the Presidential ticket, my people won’t mind Muslim/Muslim ticket — Tinubu tells North

By Umar Ahmed

National leader of the All Progressives Congress APC and Presidential hopeful, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said he has confidence in becoming Nigeria’s President in 2023 not minding a Muslim being his running mate if he is given the opportunity.

Tinubu said this while assuring leaders of thought in the northern part of the country last weekend.

He said they should leave the task of convincing the Yoruba to him if selected by his APC party to carry the banner of the party in the 2023 elections.

The issue of who will be his running mate according to our sources became a major issue.

They told him flatly they will not accept a Christian northerner to be his running mate.

He was said to have promised to pick a Northwest politician who will be a Muslim. It was then a prominent politician and former governor asked him how that will be taken in the South.

According to ObservesTimes, the APC leader told his guests that the South East and South South who are largely Christians will not matter.

It is the South West, he was quoted to have said, that could raise issues but he will manage that and they will not mind.

Tinubu, at the meeting was said to have argued that the vote of the North West, North East, some largely Muslim states in the North Central as well as South West were enough to make him President.

“All I need is your support,” he was quoted as saying.

“Leave the rest to me, I will handle it.” His guests were said not to have been convinced by his assurance as no regime in the country since independence has governed with both head and deputy as Muslims.

It is believed that come February, the party APC, under which he want to seek the office is most certain to pick a Muslim Chairman from the North Central part of the country.

Aspirants for this position are already emerging from Niger, Kwara and Nasarawa states. These candidates are all Muslims.

If Tinubu therefore emerges as APC candidate and picks a Muslim candidate from the North West it means all of the important positions in the party are held by Muslims to the exclusion of the Christians.

Part of the argument of the pro -Tinubu elements is that this has happened before when the late billionaire Muslim Aare Moshood Abiola selected Alhaji Babagana Kingibe as his running mate.

One of the northern leaders present at the meeting said, while this is true, that time is different from now.

There are all manners of tensions in the land and the security of the nation is fragile.

If anybody does that now it will be like deliberately setting the country on fire. “ The IPOB issue is still raging in the South East, young elements are restless in the SW and calling for Oodua Republic, banditry , Boko Haram and ISWAP insurgency has enveloped the North.

Why would anyone want to add religious crisis to it”, he asked.

“Only a non patriot will experiment with this. I told him my mind.

This will not work.

Let him accept this or not but I won’t be part of the effort to set Nigeria on fire”, he added.

Source: National Pivot

allcomage:
[s]The Yoruba politicians should listen to Pa Adebayo of Afenifere and other well meaning Yoruba to support president of Igbo extraction boldly. This will go a long way to bringing the south together and to assuage the anger of the South South/South East over Jonathan reelection failure believed to be caused by some Yoruba politicians alliance with the buhari group. They should be sensitive enough not to be blinded by greed not to observe that the mood of most Nigerians isn't for president of Yoruba extraction after Obasanjo 8yrs as president and Osibanjo 8yrs as vice president. If they insist on taking apc candidature, they will definitely not win the presidential election and their political situation afterwards will be a sorry one for a long time.[/s]

jyz200:

And who has religion help

Mickykarim:
"Just give me the Presidential ticket, my people won’t mind Muslim/Muslim ticket — Tinubu tells North".

THE POSSIBILITY OF THE REALITY OF THE ABOVE IS IN THE NEAR 100%, WITH A POINTER TO 1993 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, EVEN IN THE THICK OF RELIGIOUS ACRIMONY IN THE LAND BACK THEN.

Currently, there is no such prevalent condition in the Nigerian political space. ABAT may have been right with such notion.

NIGERIANS HAVE OUTGROWN THE INNUENDOES AND TIRING INTRIGUES OF RELIGION SENTIMENTS. THERE ARE MORE TO BE CONCERNED WITH NOW THAN RELIGION.

Security Inflation and too many socio-political PROBLEMS astride the nation. Only LITTLE minds and brains would want to make religion an issue at this age and stage. It is both counterproductive and backward in face of many PRESSING matters.

allcomage:
The Yoruba politicians should listen to Pa Adebayo of Afenifere and other well meaning Yoruba to support president of Igbo extraction boldly. This will go a long way to bringing the south together and to assuage the anger of the South South/South East over Jonathan reelection failure believed to be caused by some Yoruba politicians alliance with the buhari group. They should be sensitive enough not to be blinded by greed not to observe that the mood of most Nigerians isn't for president of Yoruba extraction after Obasanjo 8yrs as president and Osibanjo 8yrs as vice president. If they insist on taking apc candidature, they will definitely not win the presidential election and their political situation afterwards will be a sorry one for a long time.

poiZon:

E never help anybody, but una dey cry over hijab ban...

YorubaNiBaba:
when they talk about the south,they ain't talking about the abomination people of the south...so 4kU
Fvck southern unity

helinues:
Igberara

E ma ke ku ni

poiZon:

E never help anybody, but una dey cry over hijab ban...