2023 Campaign Council: Northern APC Christians call for boycott over Muslim-Muslim ticket
Some Northern Christian members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have reiterated their rejection of a Muslim-Muslim ticket following the last week inauguration of the APC presidential campaign council,
The Concerned Northern APC Christians Forum, in a press conference on Sunday in Abuja, insisted that the ruling party must jettison its current combination of Bola Tinubu and Kassim Shettima to get the support of Christians.
In his address, General Secretary, Lukas Bako, said the inauguration is a mere charade, describing the APC’s chances at the presidency as a failed mission.
According to him, under the present arrangement, the Christians would suffer untold persecution under an APC government in Nigeria.
Bako added that the Northern Christians stand with the position of the Christian Association of Nigeria, adding that the “Christians in the APC Presidential Campaign Council are betrayers who have sold their conscience in return for a plate of porridge”.
The group, therefore, urged the APC leadership to “do needful by replacing the APC vice Presidential Candidate with a Christian before the commencement of the campaigns”.
They, however, advised Christians in the APC coumcil to resign honourably in protest until the needful is done.
Bako further stated that the “APC must come to terms with the reality that Northern Christians were indeed notable stakeholders in the APC, and their contributions to the growth and development of the party over the years cannot be overemphasized.”
