The All Progressives Congress was still battling the Muslim-Muslim ticket controversy that has surrounded the choice of vice president slot for the 2023 presidential election.
Groups including the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Catholic Society of Nigeria had on Tuesday warned political parties against fielding a Muslim-Muslim ticket in the 2023 presidential election.
CAN, in an open letter addressed to all political parties on Tuesday, said it would take a Muslim-Muslim ticket as a declaration of war and would mobilise against political parties that adopted it.
However, some APC chieftains remained committed to the Muslim-Muslim ticket and expected the party’s presidential candidate to run with a Muslim deputy in order to get votes from the north. Northern APC governors had supported Tinubu to clinch the ticket of the party at a presidential primary held in Abuja recently.
The Senate whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, lent his support to the Muslim-Muslim ticket.
Uzor-Kalu told Christians that there was nothing to fear as Tinubu’s wife is a pastor who would always have the interest of the people at heart.
He said, “If I am in Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s position, the wife is a pastor in a Pentecostal church. I will go for a Muslim-Muslim ticket. The most important thing is for the party to win. We should stop this rubbish about religion.”
He added that it wasn’t about a person’s religion but the person’s conscience and more importantly for the party to win.
He added, “But you can also play Christian-Christian tickets depending on the scenario. Because if we don’t play the Muslim- Muslim ticket, we are in trouble, and it will be difficult to win the election because the only thing left for Ahmed Tinubu today is to play a Muslim-Muslim ticket.”
