Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has said he is the wrong person for anybody to ask questions about the controversial Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket.
“I’m the wrong person to ask because, in my State, I picked a very competent and qualified woman as a running mate in the 2019 election, but just because she happens to be a Muslim, people were calling it ‘Muslim-Muslim ticket’ and they said we were going to lose, but we won overwhelmingly.
“This fixation of Nigerians on religion instead of conscience, capacity and capability is quite sad and pathetic and I urge you as the media, please take religion out of governance. I don’t think we should be looking at religion. “Let’s develop this country… Nigeria is at crossroads; we face very serious dangers in security, in economic meltdown…but all people are concerned as far as who will be President or Vice President is concerned, is religion. It’s so sad. It’s not our religions that will solve our problems.”
The development was coming in the wake of criticism from a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.The former SGF had insinuated that Nigerians were still conscious of ethno-religious factors in politics, adding that it was the same reason that made the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , to dump the choice of Tinubu as running mate in 2014.All rights reserved.
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