A high ranking member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) , Reverend Bitrus Dangiwa has said \u00a0 the \u00a0Senate President, Bukola should be commended for stopping Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from becoming Vice President
\nHe also said Nigeria is not matured and riped for Muslim\/Muslim or Christian\/Christian ticket for the presidential race.<\/p>\n
Last week, Tinubu was reported to have stated that his moves to become President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s running mate were prevented by Saraki and el-Rufai.<\/p>\n
Tinubu had in a book,\u00a0\u2018Against the Run of Play\u2019, authored by the Chairman of\u00a0ThisDay\u00a0Editorial Board, Olusegun Adeniyi, accused the Senate President and other individuals of prevailing on Buhari not to pick him as the running mate for the 2015 election.<\/p>\n
Reverend Dangiwa \u00a0also a\u00a0former Youth President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), \u00a0Northern States, \u00a0said that it was Saraki and some Nigerians that prevailed on President Muhammadu Buhari not to pick him Tinubu \u00a0as \u00a0the Vice President, and commended the bold step of the Senate president in that regard.<\/p>\n
He \u00a0commended Senator Saraki for ensuring that the Muslim\/Muslim ticket as advocated by Tinubu did not work out during the 2015 presidential election, adding that good percentage of Christian population would have been underestimated.<\/p>\n
He added that the Senate President thought it wise as a way of promoting peaceful coexistence, \u00a0hence he truncated the move, because Muslim \/Muslim ticket would have brought crisis.
\nAccording to him, Tinubu’s thought of becoming Vice President to an already Islamic faith President was not only self centred, but selfish, \u00a0and it would have worked against the APC.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know of this Tinubu\u2019s move for a very long time, \u00a0most northerners contributed to Saraki\u2019s choice of working against a Muslim\/Muslim ticket in 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Saraki\u2019s decision not to have a Muslim\/Muslim ticket was in the best interests of the socio-political development of the nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt therefore shows that there are still good Muslims and Christians who mean well for this country, \u00a0and Saraki is one of such good examples\u201d.<\/p>\n
Asked \u00a0why Nigerians, \u00a0particularly, \u00a0Christian community did not raise eyebrows during the transition to democratic government in 1993 when \u00a0the Social Democratic Party (SDP) fielded Muslim\/Muslim ticket in the persons of Moshood Abiola and Babagana Kingibe for the presidency, \u00a0Reverend \u00a0Dangiwa \u00a0said most Christians were not active in politics neither did they show great interest in politics then, adding that Nigerians where eager to have a democratically elected government and do away with the military regime.<\/p>\n
He however, \u00a0noted that in the present circumstance, it is no longer possible to field two candidates of the same religious calling.<\/p>\n
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