Thousands of Nigerians from across the nineteen northern States, on Friday, converged in Abuja, to protest the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) BOLA AHMED TINUBU.
The protesters, under the aegis of All Christians Community of Northern Nigeria, marched to the Presidential Villa to submit a protest letter to the Federal Government over the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by the APC.
Leader of the group, MOSES ADAMS said these are indeed not the best times for Christians in the APC and Nigeria in general.
He noted that Nigeria is a multi-ethnic and multi-religious State, with Islam and Christianity as the two major religions which have defined the country’s way of life since independence, adding that successive governments have respected the country’s multi-religious nature, especially during elections, to create a balance in the leadership of the nation.
Mr. Adams said the decision of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to disregard the Christian community in the choice of its vice presidential candidate for the 2023 presidential election was, therefore, “unacceptable and a recipe for creating sharp divides between the Muslims and the Christians in the country.”
He maintained that since the return to democracy in 1999 in Nigeria, the tradition has been a Muslim-Christian or Christian-Muslim pairing by all political parties, which had to a large extent, ensured religious harmony in the country.
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