Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has sent a message to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and it's presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying God is against its decision to field an all Muslim ticket ahead of next year's presidential election.
Dogara while praising CAN for condemning the APC's Muslim-Muslim ticket, said the move by the ruling party, is ungodly, dangerous and a recipe for disunity and disaster.
Dogara made the statement on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at the 12th General Assembly and Leadership Transition Ceremony and Symposium on the Role of Christian Women and Youths in Politics, organised by the Christian Association of Nigeria in Abuja.
“The position taken by CAN is not only CAN’ s position, it is not only the position of notable Christian leaders like Babachir David Lawal, the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation and many others who have spoken againts it, it is also God’s position because we serve the God of justice, our God is righteous, our God is the author of diversity, and He wants as diverse as we are to come together.
“So, CAN’s position, as much as it is a righteous position, it is the position of all of us who love righteousness, justice, diversity and are working to harness it for the advancement of this country.
“Anybody can say anything but in as much as what we are standing on is godly, any other position is ungodly. It is either you are for righteousness, inclusiveness , justice or you are against the unity of this great country.”
Dogara had previously warned against getting it wrong in next year's presidential election, saying prediction that Nigeria may not exist beyond 2023, “shouldn’t scare us. But what scares me is post-2023, if we get it all wrong. What is on the 2023 ballot is Nigeria itself."
He said, ”We need a team whose pedigree must match their rhetoric for unity, peace and progress. Our most immediate challenge now is to bring our disparate peoples together and pull down our barriers; otherwise, we cannot build. Issues of development, although absolutely important, are not the most immediate.
”No one without an implementable solution on the questions of unity and justice for us all regardless of ethnicity or creed should have their names on the ballot, period.
“Make no mistake, if we dare get it all wrong in 2023, we would have succeeded in hastening the days of the first four hours – the famous horsemen of the apocalypse on ourselves days that will be marked by conquest, war, famine and death. May God forbid,” he said in the statement.