Yemi Osinbajo, the vice president of Nigeria, has voiced his discontent with the Muslim-Muslim APC ticket for the 2023 presidential election.
Recall that despite protests against the Muslim/Muslim ticket, the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, announced the former governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, as his running mate.
According to a Presidency source who talked on the hot topic on Monday, Osinbajo has voiced his opposition to the Muslim-Muslim ticket.
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Before being selected as vice president, Osinbajo was also against the ticket in 2014, according to the individual who talked with Newsmen.
The source said, “Professor Osinbajo is opposed to this thing announced on Sunday, and his objections are well known both to the party and even the flagbearer himself.”
According to the source, Osinbajo recently advise APC chieftains and Tinubu against the Muslim/Muslim ticket.
He claimed that such an unbalanced ticket would simply be an untenable and unnecessary risk.
The source said, “The VP explained the logic, fairness and justice of a balanced ticket is unassailable. The argument that merit should be considered above a Muslim- Christian balance presents a false choice. It is not one or the other. You can get all the merit you want in a balanced ticket.
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“The VP said anything short of a balanced ticket creates needless tension and further aggravates some of the country’s fault lines. But a balanced ticket certainly sends a positive signal.”
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