Muslim-Muslim Ticket: Hot questions that must be answered — Adegboruwa, SAN

Eminent lawyer and activist Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) on Tuesday morning released seven hot questions that must be answered by those advocating a Muslim-Muslim Ticket by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 presidential election. The party’s candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Muslim from the South-West, is said to be seriously considering picking a Northern Muslim as running mate.

Faulting the move, Adegboruwa asked in a statement entitled, “No Candidate or Political Party Can Undermine the Constitution”:

“In the face of section 10 of the Constitution, where do we garner the banal courage to propagate a Muslim-Muslim ticket in this fractured entity? The audacity of such barefaced heartlessness beats any imagination. What could be the rationale? Superiority of faith? Enforcement of international conspiracies? A new form of Jihad? Or is it a matter of distrust for or supposed inferiority of South West Muslims? Or is it that the South West Muslim is not Muslim enough or Northern Christian not Northern enough?”

According to the popular activist, “It is still the same elite, who throw up these bankrupt theories to create friction where there should be none. Even if the Christian population were to be less than it is now, the liberal concept of freedom of religion and thought should weigh in to balance the power equation. A representative of the Muslim faith has been in the saddle since 2015, with little or no capacity to tame the monstrous incursion of the jihadists, who even descend on innocent Muslims without thought. And yet the statistics show that from the South-South to the South-East, there is an incontestable monopoly of faith across the land and some would have us believe that they do not matter. In what way do we explain to those of them in Ondo, in Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States that they should continue to play second fiddle due to the recklessness of some power monsters who love to deploy religion as a tool for power retention. Just perish the thought altogether.”