Senator Orji Kalu has asserted that a Muslim-Muslim ticket is a critical factor for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to win the presidential election in 2023.
He pointed out that he believes that the ruling party is likely to lose the election if it fails to go for the option of a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket, looking at the present circumstances it has found itself in.
Senator Kalu made the assertion on Wednesday while speaking in an interview with journalists at the National Assembly complex in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
‘If we don’t play Muslim-Muslim (ticket), we are in trouble,’ he stated. ‘It will be difficult to win the election because the only thing left for Ahmed Tinubu today is to play Muslim-Muslim.
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‘What is wrong with Muslim-Muslim ticket? I don’t see anything wrong. There is nothing wrong with a Christian-Christian ticket also, it depends on the condition.
‘The condition that we have found ourselves today is that you cannot play two minorities – Tinubu is a minority Muslim from the South and if you put a Christian from the North, it is a minority Christian from the North. What I am telling you is sincerely from my mind; it is not the position of our party.’
The lawmaker stressed that there was nothing wrong if the APC decides to field a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the election.
He argued that it was impossible for a southern minority Muslim and a northern minority Christian to win a presidential election in Nigeria.
According to Senator Kalu, the priority of the ruling party should be winning the presidential election in 2023 and not the religious and ethnic affiliation of its vice presidential candidate.
He thanked President Buhari for ensuring a level playing ground for all candidates at the party’s presidential primary election.