The campaign of APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu claims that the Muslim-Muslim 2023 ticket is sending shivers down the Peoples Democratic Party’s spine (PDP).
Tinubu Campaign spokesperson Bayo Onanuga accused the PDP of misinformation in a Facebook post on Wednesday night.
Last Monday, when delegates voted, the “scaremongering campaign” began on the convention grounds in Eagle Square, he added.
Onanuga stated that, despite the fact that the plot was put out before it could spread, the PDP has “continued to fan the embers of religious suspicions in Nigeria.”
Nearly three weeks after “breaching the power rotation principle,” which should have returned power to the south, the PDP dithers over a running partner for their candidate Atiku Abubakar, according to the experienced journalist.
Since Tinubu got the 2023 ticket, Onanuga has informed the public that all anti-muslim articles have been largely produced by the PDP machine.
“Only PDP can be mortally afraid of a muslim-muslim ticket as it is most likely to disrupt its 2023 election permutation, the way it upset its ancestral party, the National Republican Convention in 1993, when MKO Abiola and Babagana Kingibe won handily,” he said.
Onanuga claimed that the APC’s and its candidate’s fear has fueled national divisions on an issue outside the 1999 constitution’s authority.
The former head of the Nigerian News Agency (NAN) insists that religion is not a role in elective posts in the country’s constitution.
According to him, Section 131 of Chapter VI, Part I, provides that a person may be eligible for election to the presidency provided he or she is a citizen by birth, has reached the age of 35, and is a member of a political party.
When people bring religion into a secular activity, Onanuga says, they can only prepare to pull Nigeria apart through a holy war.
“Disregard the PDP red-herring campaign and refuse to swallow it hook, line, and sinker,” the spokesman said.
His post went on to say that the country requires a formidable team, either Christian or Muslim, to lead its 200 million people toward a common goal.
