APC Muslim-Muslim Ticket: Osinbajo Reveals Stance- Read Details

The source revealed that Osinbajo had expressed serious objection to a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

"Professor Osinbajo is opposed to this thing announced on Sunday, and his objections are well known both to the party and even the flagbearer himself," the source said, adding that the VP opposed a Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2014 even before what later turned out as his own eventual nomination as VP.

Then he was reported to have explained to Tinubu that a Muslim-Muslim ticket would simply isolate Christians. Later the then APC flagbearer, President Buhari, also shared that position and rejected overtures to name Tinubu as his running mate after emerging as the presidential candidate.

The informed source said that recently, Osinbajo counselled APC chieftains and Tinubu to avoid an unbalanced ticket, arguing that such would simply be untenable and an unnecessary risk.

The source added, "The VP explained the logic, fairness and justice of a balanced ticket is unassailable. The argument that merit should be considered above a Muslim- Christian balance presents a false choice. It is not one or the other. You can get all the merit you want in a balanced ticket.

"The VP said anything short of a balanced ticket creates a needless tension and further aggravates some of the country's fault-lines. But a balanced ticket certainly sends a positive signal."

Many Nigerians including political stakeholders across different parties had expressed their dissatisfactions since after Tinubu's announcement of Senator Kashim Shettima as running mate and that had led to some APC party stakeholders to denounce their membership.