Muslim-Muslim Ticket: Watch your Utterances, Ganduje Warns Babachir Lawal
POLITICS DIGEST- Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, has faulted former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Engr. Babachir Lawal, over his opposition to the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party’s presidential standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Muslim, last Sunday chose a fellow Muslim, Senator Kashim Shettima, as his running mate.
Reacting to the development on Tuesday, Lawal, described the Muslim-Muslim ticket as a disastrous error, adding that Shettima was Northern governors’ Greek gift’ to Tinubu.
He singled out Ganduje as the brain behind all efforts to allegedly islamise the whole country.
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Faulting Lawal on Wednesday, the Kano State governor described as unjustifiable his claims that the Ganduje Foundation, a philanthropic body, was being used to force some Christian faithful to become Muslims.
Ganduje, in a statement by Kano State Commissioner for Information, Mallam Muhammad Garba, described Lawal’s comment on forcing Christians to become Muslims as “totally false, considering that, while there is no compulsion in religion, Islam gave individuals the freedom to choose their own religion, and also provided non-Muslims with considerable economic, cultural and administrative rights.”
The governor, according to the statement, assured that the Muslim-Muslim ticket will not in any way result in the neglect of Christians in the country.
He appealed to the former SGF, Christian APC members and other Nigerians “to be mindful of their utterances, especially on religious matters and support the party for quality leadership that will deliver the country from her challenges.”
