The Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has called on Christians to ignore voting for All Peoples Congress (APC) in 2023 general elections for adamant position of Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the party to have resolved for Muslim/Muslim ticket.
Penpushing reports that, Dogara made the call on Tuesday at a summit tagged ‘Meet the Church’ organised by the Nigerian National Christians Coalition (NNCC),in Abuja, adding that Tinubu did not only ignore the advice of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) against the same faith ticket but also dismissed it.
The politician position was made clear in a statement by his media aide, Turaki Hassan, emphasized that the church must be awakened from its complacency and resist the decision of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“Every Christian knows that our God does not tolerate waste. It is unchristian for the church to waste anything given to us from above as we own nothing except what is given to us from above’, Dogara emphasised.
“These warnings were not only ignored but dismissed in one fell swoop by the APC presidential candidate who strangely believes that he can build a strong, secure and viable nation-state without first forging a shared identity, vision and values for our people thereby enabling us transit from citizens of a country into a nation of people with strong shared identity and values”, he said
The former speaker pointed out that the fact that some Islamic clerics and Muslim leaders condemned the same faith ticket shows that the church is right to have opposed the ticket, noting that.it is a good omen that elites are united in opposing the same faith ticket presented by the ruling party.
“To demonstrate that the church is right, it is not alone in condemning the same faith ticket, other prominent Islamic clerics and Muslim leaders have also spoken in the same light.It is a good omen that both Christian and Muslim elites are not complacent over this matter’.
‘To this end, it will be easy to generate the needed elite consensus that is key to nation-building. All nations are built by elite consensus while all countries that failed at nation-building were destroyed by elite complacency’.
“Granted that the Christians and Muslims will always disagree on some issues, there are, however, many things over which we are agreeable. It is enough to forge ahead with the task of nation-building based on those common issues we agree on.
‘It must be noted that just as Muslims alone cannot build a nation out of Nigeria so also Christians alone cannot. We have to work together on “nation formations. Christians in Nigeria not to waste their votes by voting for the Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 election’.
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