After defending a Muslim-Muslum presidential ticket, it is hypocritical for Christians in the All Progressives Congress (APC) to advocate for a Christian Senate President under the guise of equity, fairness and justice.
This is according to Daniel Bwala, one of the spokespersons of the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, who described the current agitation by Christians in the ruling party for the seat to be ceded to a Christian as hypocritical.
He stated the position in a series of tweets on his verified handle on Tuesday, saying that if it was necessary to have a single faith ticket as the APC did with President-elect and Vice President-elect, Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, respectively, there could be nothing wrong now if a Muslim from the northwest emerges as Senate President.
Bwala alleged that while it was convenient for the APC members to sacrifice the northern minorities for political expediency as it concerned the presidential ticket, the same people are now screaming Islamic agenda if a Christian does not get the senate president post.
According to him, the question of equity, fairness and justice now makes meaning to the APC members because they sense that they are being shut out.
He argued that those who claimed the single faith ticket was a winning formula should also accept that the senate president going to the northwest is as well a winning formula.
The Atiku campaign spokesman tweeted:” It is so shocking that my Christian brothers in APC who said Muslim Muslim ticket didn’t matter then are now saying senate president must be a Christian. Textbook definition of hypocrisy. If it didn’t matter then, it doesn’t matter now.
“It was convenient for them then to sacrifice northern minority Christians on a platter of convenience. But it is now an Islamic agenda if a Christian does not emerge as a senate president. What makes you think your Christianity is more original than that of a minority Christian.
“It appears the music of equity, fairness and Justice is sweet in your mouth, it is equity, fairness and justice for the senate president to emerge from the northwest because they are not only missing in the power equation.
“In any case, since the foundation of the Muslim-Muslim ticket is faulty, the structure of the foundation does not matter. Mutatis mutandis.
“All of them campaigning for the position from the south were the same persons who said religion didn’t matter. Now the only campaign slogan in their mouth is religion. Then, they said it was about winning formulae, okay, now we are saying it is about governing formulae.”
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