According to Babachir Lawal, a former secretary to the government of the federation, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate, have refused to acknowledge that they erred by running a Muslim-Muslim ticket in the 2023 election.
According to a statement released by Lawal on Sunday, neither Kashim Shettima, Tinubu’s running mate, nor either of them saw anything improper with selecting a same-faith ticket to compete for president in 2023.
Additionally, he said that neither the ruling party nor its candidate had succeeded in appeasing or soothing the sentiments of Northern Christian lawmakers.
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Lawal urged Nigerians to comprehend their struggle and insisted that his group would continue to stand up for justice, equity, and fair play.
The statement read, “We have so far not taken the road to reconciliation because, in the first instance, neither the APC as a party nor its presidential candidate has bothered to seek us out for reconciliation even though early on, our doors were left open for such.
“There are of course some ‘Christian’ turncoats and ‘Judases’ who, driven either by moral turpitude, poverty or greed, have hired themselves out as agents and spoilers of this noble Christian cause.
“To this group, I wish to recommend the study of the biographies of Judas Iscariot and Ahithophel in the Bible. Be careful to note how their lives ended.
“It seems that Tinubu/Shettima’s preferred approach is to attempt to counter our position through insults and sponsored fake Christian organisations to create the impression that there is a division within the Christendom on this matter.”
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“The strategy has failed with them becoming the butt of jokes in church gatherings across the country.
“This approach has also portrayed the duo as arrogant and pitiable people whilst also exposing them to the public as people with unimaginable deficiencies of noble character.
“And, broken they will be indeed. We noticed this trend in APC right from its registration in 2014 up to the 2022 convention, where the overriding goal seemed to have been to exclude northern Christians from all the organs of the party.”
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