APC Risks Losing Election With Muslim-Muslim Ticket – Yakubu Dogara

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has come out to say that the adoption of a Muslim-Muslim ticket by the All Progressives Congress for the 2023 presidential election is a fruitless political effort doomed to end in failure.

He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, in a manner that negated the fundamentals of nation-building, such as shared identity, values and visions, the APCs’s adoption of the same-faith ticket in a country that has never attained nationhood is very unwise.

Dogara added that despite the warnings that it will be a very bad idea, Tinubu carried out with the plan he believes will work.

His words, “In their convoluted posturing, they have placed state-building ahead of nation-building; a task never before achieved in history and we need no seer to tell us that such an endeavour is guaranteed to end in failure. No divided people have ever built any civilisation.”

“I am so elated that today’s church in Nigeria has shaken off the beast of the complacency of the past into fire by speaking up and resisting measures adopted by some political platforms that will hamper nation building.”

“In a manner that negated the fundamentals of nation building, such as shared identity, values and visions, the APC adopted the same-faith ticket in a country that has never attained nationhood.”

“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.”

“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.”