The News Nigeria
By Fani Kayode
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister and now a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised all Nigerians to support Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to win the Nigerian presidency in 2023. He said this is notwithstanding the Muslim-Muslim ticket which has thrown the Christian community into an apprehension of a possible Islamisation of the country if he wins.
Fani-Kayode praised the Northern APC Governors and the Southern Governors who met in Asaba across party lines, saying that power must shift to the South in 2023.
According to the former Minister, “That is how Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerged as the flagbearer of our party and the entire nation should reciprocate and reward their gesture by ensuring that he goes on to win the presidential election next year. We must stand with him, pray for him, fight for him, mobilise for him and ensure that he wins convincingly, once victorious, we must be prepared to defend his mandate with all we have got. There will be no repeat of June 12th under ANY circumstances and contrary to the disinformation being peddled around by our detractors there is no such plan or conspiracy in the offing by those in power today. We must also be ready to make difficult and uncomfortable sacrifices and live with the hard choices that the candidate has made, knowing that he made them in good faith, to win.
He added: “The real patriots and party loyalists are those who may have strong reservations about a Muslim/Muslim ticket but who are prepared to overlook that in the interest of a power shift to the South knowing that this will finally put to rest the notion that Southerners are slaves and second class citizens and the erroneous idea that the APC is a party for Northerners only.
This is where yours truly stands together with many others that share my Christian faith. Unlike that of others, our reaction to a Muslim/Muslim ticket is not emotional or hysterical but rather practical, calm, calculating and level-headed.
It is clear to me and I can confirm this after a series of meetings with both the candidate and his Vice that it is a position that he has taken as a consequence of political expediency and not out of any misguided or shameless attempt to spite, injure, insult or denigrate the 110 million Christians in our country.
Tinubu’s intention is not to undermine Christians, shame the Church or destroy our faith and neither would he even dare to contemplate or attempt to venture such a reckless undertaking and course knowing that it would fail woefully with calamitous consequences both for him and for Nigeria…
