The ongoing discourse over the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) continues to divide stakeholders, in the aftermath of opposition by Northern Christians to the combination, IgbereTV reports
Consequently, the party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr Yakubu Ajaka, decried the politicisation of the decision to the detriment of competence and nation-building.
Ajaka, who made this assertion on Sunday, said, “As it is common with developing democracies such as ours, the selection of candidates for the parties always comes with various challenges, mostly bordering on sentiments, such as religion, ethnicity, and geo-political arrangements.
“The cry of marginalization has also become a common and popular feature among politicians and the electorate.
“These sentiments had been into play all our political life for quite a long time. Unfortunately, we seem to throw away competence, capacity, and qualification to these sentiments. This is partly responsible for our present predicament, with no benefit to even the agitators of such sentiments.
“It is sad and regrettable that our country has been recording divisive tendencies, with our unity as a nation sometimes threatened. There are ill feelings over perceived cases of marginalization. In Nigeria, every section is crying of marginalization. It has been the case during Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan’s administrations, and now.
