Senate moves to stop Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket

Senate moves to stop Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket

In a bid to stop political parties from producing same faith ticket for Presidential candidate and the running mate, the Senate is in receipt of a bill seeking to amend the Electoral Act, 2022 by inserting a new subsection (3) to Section 84(2) that will prohibit the nomination of a Presidential candidate and the Vice from the same religion.

Senator Smart Adeyemi, representing Kogi West on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, made a copy of the proposed amendment bill available to journalists at a briefing on Sunday.

Adeyemi said the alteration he seeks will not only promote religious harmony in the country but prevent political parties from presenting the contentious Muslim-Muslim ticket or a sole Christian-Christian ticket in the country.

Adeyemi’s proposed bill came even as he called on Nigerians to accept the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the ruling APC as an act of God ordained at this time to return Nigeria on the path of glory.

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