ABEOKUTA– The General Overseer of Victory Life Bible Church (VLBC), Pst. Lawrence Achudume has stated that he, and some others Christain will hit the streets in protest if the All Progressives Congress (APC) go ahead to field a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the forthcoming presidential election in 2023.
Achudume made this known while speaking exclusively with selected journalists at the church headquarters in Abeokuta on Tuesday.
The clergyman maintained that it is very unreasonable for anyone to mute the Muslim-Muslim ticket agenda in a disunited Nigeria of today, saying that it is an idea that lack moral decency.
“We are a nation where religion has played so many major roles in our national divide and simple should get anybody to advocate a Muslim-Muslim ticket to a today Nigeria would be stupendous. It will be an act of impudence, an act that lacked moral decency as a nation.
“In MKO Abiola and Kingibe of 1993, you may want to say, Nigeria was not as divided as it is now. Talk about Boko Haram, Fulani insurgence, many people suspects the government or those in government and those in the military as those behind Boko Haram and the so called Fulani herdsmen. Now, who are these Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram, they are muslims.
“Nigerians were more united, today, we are more divided. You have the IPOB, MASSOB, Igboho is there in Yorubaland, and different groups in the North. So, how would you now bring a Muslim-Muslim ticket and you expect a southerners, a South East to accept it.
“South East have been contemplating to have a taste of the presidency for years, they never had it. Does it mean there is no Christain in the North that can become Vice President? Don’t say it again!
He however said the country is not ripe for such political calculations, saying that the unity needed in the country can only be achieved when all tribes, religion and cultures are taken into the scheme of things.
“People suspects everything Buhari does as a Muslim president. If it is a Muslim-Muslim ticket, most people would have felt Nigeria is sold. The christian will conclude Nigeria is sold. That the plan to islamise Nigeria will now be concluded because there would not be anybody else to give them contrary opinion.
“So, no christian will support any Muslim-Muslim ticket in Nigeria of today and I can tell you even people like me will hit the streets to campaign against it. It doesn’t make sense, it’s not an idea anybody should mute in today’s Nigeria.
“Not even when some governors are not even cultured in their language. They speak with such height of arrogance and impunity. And one thing they forget is that being a governor, senator or President doesn’t make you better than others. Infact, it should be the least within the nation.
“It should be a servant of all, not to lord it over all but to distribute our common wealth that everybody will rejoice. But we have a nation where we put in leadership, they become lord, which is wrong. That you are a Governor, Senator, speaker should humble you. It shouldn’t make you arrogant.
“But what we see in Nigeria, when they get there they become so arrogant and uncontrollable, they turn down on everyone. People like us will resist it my brother”, he added
