Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, it will interest you to note that leaders of the All Progressives Congress APC and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, are in a dilemma over the choice of a vice president. Presently, some northern governors are scrambling for a Muslim-Muslim ticket.
It has been gathered from a reliable source that the governors of the party are insisting that Tinubu selects either a serving or former governor from the core Northern States as his running mate so that the party can get massive support against their major opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the next year’s presidential election.
It should be recalled that the Northern governors played a vital role in the emergence of Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the APC. About 11 Northern governors unanimously agreed to zone the party’s ticket to the South. They massively supported his candidacy in the presidential primaries, which helped him to defeat other contestants, including Osinbajo and Amaechi, his closet rivals.
As a result of this, it was gathered that the northern governors are making overtures to Bola Tinubu to pick one of them, which means by implication, the APC would be fielding a Muslim-Muslim ticket. It has been gathered from a verifiable source, precisely the Sun that the two governors being considered for the VP slot are Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State and Abubakar Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State.
It will interest you to note that the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has opposed such moves by the All Progressives Congress by stating that a Muslim-Muslim ticket would not work in Nigeria. CAN has advised Atiku Abubakar of the PDP to pick a Christian as a running mate and has also advised Peter Obi to pick a Muslim as his running mate in next year’s general election.
considering the peculiarity of the nation’s political climate, which is divided along regional and religious lines, it is very important that the All Progressives Congress APC, go for a Muslim-Christian ticket in 2023.