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Former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has clarified his position on the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election.
In a no-holds-barred interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme, the former governor said, contrary to what many believed, his support for the ticket was a political strategy to secure electoral victory and not motivated by religion.
Speaking on the strategy, El-Rufai said:
“It was a political strategy; it was a strategy to win the election; it was not a religious strategy. When you are contesting an election, you look at every variable, every index, every criterion that will help you win. It has nothing to do with religion.”
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He also spoke on fears exhibited by many Nigerians over religion.
“So long as we continue to speculate on these issues, we will not solve them. We have done a Muslim-Muslim ticket now. Tell me in what way Christians are now short-changed; nothing. No leader who wants to succeed will limit his choice of appointees to a particular religion or ethnicity.
“If you want to succeed, you have to diversify. Now we have cured the fear and the love for the Muslim-Muslim ticket. It has been done, buried, and gone. I did a Muslim-Muslim ticket in Kaduna; I want to know which Christian in Kaduna was short-changed because of it,” he queried.
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