{"id":98369,"date":"2022-08-19T19:04:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98369"},"modified":"2022-08-19T19:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:04:51","slug":"protesting-youths-say-shettima-obstacle-to-tinubus-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/protesting-youths-say-shettima-obstacle-to-tinubus-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesting youths say Shettima obstacle to Tinubu\u2019s victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Protests against the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress thickened on Friday with over 200 youths and supporters of the APC from the North-Central zone demanding a reversal of the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The protesting youths said the choice of Kashim Shettima was the only obstacle to Bola Tinubu\u2019s victory at the 2023 poll.<\/p>\n<p>They called on the presidential candidate of the APC, Tinubu, to drop Shettima as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators, under the aegis of North-Central Progressives Youth, began the protest at Unity Fountain and culminated at the Presidential Villa.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">While chanting solidarity songs, the youths from the six North-Central states and the Federal Capital Territory held banners with inscriptions such as, \u2018APC presidential ticket must be for all faiths\u2019, \u2018Shettima must go now\u2019, \u2018All Christians say no to Islamisation of the APC presidential ticket\u2019, \u2018Tinubu and Shettima must do the needful, it is our constitutional right\u2019, \u2018Don\u2019t destroy the unity of Nigeria\u2019, among others.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe President of NCPY, Musa Attah, who described the party\u2019s presidential flagbearer, Bola Tinubu, as a \u201cman loved and adored by Nigerians\u201d, was quick to add that his only obstacle to getting victory in the 2023 presidential election would be his running mate and former governor of Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, to replace Shettima with a Christian for the good of the party and Nigeria.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHe added that Tinubu has demonstrated capacity over the years and is primed to build on Buhari\u2019s legacies.<\/p>\n<p>Attah said, \u201cTinubu\u2019s alliance with Shettima may just be his undoing. In the face of unprecedented disunity, the same-faith ticket is a disregard for the country\u2019s fragility and would further polarise the nation. Sections 14 and 15 of the Constitution talk about Federal Character. The question is, does the choice of a Muslim-Muslim ticket fit into that Federal Character? As they say in law, you can\u2019t come to equity without clean hands. He who wants equity must do equity. Is there equity in that Muslim-Muslim choice?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rejection of the same-faith ticket should not be seen as Christian objection but a protest by every Nigerian in favour of democracy which guarantees freedom of choice, freedom of expression, and freedom of worship. Nigeria is a secular state. Our forefathers were aware of this even before they designed the Constitution. And in making these choices, we must be sensitive to the sensibilities of the people. It shouldn\u2019t be lorded over the people, to whom the power belongs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Muslim-Muslim Presidency would mean a sectional national ideology to replace the liberty upon which Nigeria was established as a country. With Shettima, the APC is implying that Christians in the North are of no consequence in the scheme of things. We have a huge Christian population in the North-East and North-West. In the North-Central, the Christians are dominant. This is why Shettima must vacate this position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organisation, therefore, told Buhari to look beyond the surface and replace Shettima with a Christian, adding that only this can protect the President\u2019s legacies with Tinubu as successor.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests against the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress thickened on Friday with over 200 youths and supporters of the APC from the North-Central zone demanding a reversal of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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