2023: Northern Group Urges Nigerians To Reject Same-Faith Candidates

2023: Northern Group Urges Nigerians To Reject Same-Faith Candidates

As 2023 general comes nigh, the chairman of the Northern States Christian Elders Forum, Oyinehi Ejoga, urged Christians to reject Bola Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima’s same-faith presidential ticket from the All Progressives Congress.

It’s time for Christians to rise up against the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the APC, according to Ejoga, who spoke to attendees at the NOSCEF’s national congress in Kaduna. If they don’t, it’ll likely continue in the nation’s future elections.

He asserts that the APC‘s persistence despite the widespread opposition to the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket demonstrates that the party has no regard for Christians in the nation, and he warns that Christians would soon suffer as a result if nothing is done now.

He said, “Unpatriotic politicians will use any formula they can apply to win elections, whether it hurts or not, and promise to placate as APC is doing after all the pleas. They will discard any formula that makes them lose elections in the future.

“Make the single faith ticket unattractive for the future by killing it now or render yourselves forever an irrelevant commodity in the election equation for the future.

“A people easily persuaded by personal and selfish gains to the destruction of the Body will be a Judas to the Christendom. Let us be men and women of principles and loyalty to God.

“We enjoin all lovers of Nigeria across faith to reject the single faith ticket to frustrate politics of exclusion that is mindful of regional balance but insensitive to faith inclusion.”

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Prof. Josiah Onaolapo, a guest speaker at the event, declared that it was time for Christians nationwide to actively engage in politics in order to address some of the nation’s problems.

Speaking on the topic of “Politics today: Which route for Northern Christians,” Onaolapo said that Nigeria’s current predicament is due to the lack of Christians in the political system.

“Christians must join politics. After God, politics directs the country. So the Church should be part and parcel of those that direct Nigeria.

“If Christians are serious in politics, we won’t be where we are today in the country. The Church had been acting as moral compass without being practitioners. So, it is time we wake up,” he said.

Onaolapo, who bemoaned the persecution of Christians in the North, noted that only three of the region’s 19 states, which make up the North, are led by Christians.

He stated that the 2023 general election poses a threat to the political viability of Northern Christians and that they must take control of their destiny in order to avoid eternal damnation.

Meanwhile, Professor Doknan Sheni, the head of the Christian APC members in the 19 Northern states, expressed regret that some Northern APC governors had persuaded Tinubu to run on a ticket of the same religion. He claimed that this development could cost the party the presidency and other key positions nationwide.

A Northern Muslim may succeed Tinubu in 2023, which would mean the country would have Muslim presidents for 24 straight years, he claimed, lamenting how the APC has been discriminating against Christians in the sharing of roles. President Muhammadu Buhari has served eight years in office.