An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Farouk Aliyu, has said Nigerian Christians are now more comfortable with the party’s Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket. He recently had his say during an appearance on ARISE Television’s The Morning Show, and Nigerians have been reacting.
Following President Bola Tinubu’s decision to retain Vice President Kashim Shettima as his running mate for the 2027 presidential election, Farouk revealed that BAT’s government has disproved fears of religious marginalisation.
He added that the APC leadership opted to retain the same ticket because it clearly won the confidence of Nigerians in the last election.
His words, “Our leader, the president, decided in his wisdom not to change the winning ticket.
And the Christians in this country, I am sure, are now comfortable, much, much more comfortable than when we came up with the Muslim-Muslim ticket.
That was when there was a lot of hue and cry that the Christians were going to be marginalized. Well, now it’s history that nobody is being marginalized along religious lines.
President Tinubu has been leading this country as a Nigerian, not anybody with any religious toga.
Now it is our own decision, the party, of course, through the leader, to retain Kashim Shettima, and we are very happy that the ticket has not been tinkered with, so that we also, as a party, don’t have to start thinking what next to do.
We’ve tried it when it was hectic, when it was about impossible, and Nigerians believed in us, gave us the chance, and we are doing it again. And we hope Nigerians will believe in us and give us a chance again with the Muslim-Muslim ticket.”
