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Northern Christians Will Reject APC Over Same Faith- Shagari

AFNews Reporter

Dec 07, 2022

A former Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Mukhtar Shagari, has described the same-faith of the All Progressive congress presidential ticket as an insult to Christians in the country.

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Shaghari who asserted this during a live appearance on Channels Television's Politics programme on Tuesday said that the APC All has failed Nigerians and opined that its Muslim-Muslim ticket strategy for the 2023 general election won't get its desired voter turnout in the northern region of the country.

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"The Christians in this country, especially in the North felt slighted, they felt insulted when APC decided to go with Muslim-Muslim ticket, and that will reject the ruling party in the forthcoming presidential electionÔÇØ

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Shagari, a former Minister of Water Resources and member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said if APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu has a Christian wife, Oluremi, it is only okay for to choose a Christian running mate and not a fellow Muslim in the person of former governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima.

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"The APC has failed Nigerians in every aspect you can think of. In every aspect you can think of, APC has failed Nigerians, particularly in the North where people are now kidnapped and ransoms have to be paid and people are now being killed. Lack of employment all over the country and so on.

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"They simply think that both the Christians and the Muslims in this country are stupid. So, they decided to come out with the Muslim-Muslim ticket, thinking if they do that, everybody in the North-West, in the North-East and the rest of Nigeria will jump at it but Nigerian people are wiser, they know what they want: they want a government that will change their lives for the better,ÔÇØ Shagari said.

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