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Muslim Ticket: APC Has Hidden Agenda - Ex-Minister Dalung

Muslim Ticket: APC Has Hidden Agenda – Ex-Minister Dalung

July 21, 2022 4:51 am

Solomon Dalung, former minister of sports and youth development, has lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the Muslim-Muslim ticket, declaring that the ruling party has a hidden agenda over the country.

In an interview published by The Punch which was obtained by Africa Daily News, New York, Dalung, who recently emerged as the Plateau state SDP’s candidate for the House of Representatives, Langtang North/Langtang South federal constituency, asserted that he does not think the APC will win the 2023 presidential election.

‘It is going to be a serious and herculean task for the party to win because, apart from …

2023 We Will Wholly Reject Muslim-Muslim Ticket - SOKAPU

2023: We Will Wholly Reject Muslim-Muslim Ticket – SOKAPU

July 16, 2022 4:38 am

The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union have announced that it has made up its mind not to allow its people to vote for a Muslim-Muslim presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election.

The SOKAPU’s spokesperson, Luka Binniyat, made this known while speaking to reporters on Friday, stating that the southern Kaduna people had resolved never to support the idea.

In a meantime, a Nigerian civil-right activist based in the United States of America, Mr Smart Madu-Ajaja, said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, had the basic human and constitutional right to choose whoever he liked as …

Tinubu's Muslim Ticket, A Plot To Islamise Nigeria –Youth CAN

Tinubu’s Muslim Ticket, A Plot To Islamise Nigeria –Youth CAN

July 15, 2022 7:15 am

Youth Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (YOWI-CAN) in the 19 Northern States and Abuja has lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) describing the Muslim-Muslim ticket of Bola Tinubu as ‘evil and satanic plot to Islamise Nigeria’.

The YOWI-CAN also dared the Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum and Plateau State, Governor Simon Bako Lalong that unless something was done to correct what it termed an error, it would mobilize its members to embark on a massive protest against the ticket.

Speaking through a press release on Friday signed by its Chairman, Evangelist Musa D Misal, and the Secretary, …

2023 Polls Osinbajo Clears Air Alleged Plans To Dump APC

2023 Polls: Osinbajo Clears Air On Alleged Plans To Dump APC

July 15, 2022 3:52 am

The Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has denied ever seeking President Muhammadu Buhari’s permission to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC), over the party’s Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket.

Osinbajo stated in a widely circulated memorandum suggesting he asked Buhari for permission to leave APC was not from him.

The memorandum which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York was dated June 24, 2022 with reference number SH/VP/605/2./0 and titled ‘Permission to resign from APC,’ listed family pressure and other reasons for the alleged decision.

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Muslim-Muslim Ticket, A Head-On Attack On Christians – Ex-SGF

Muslim-Muslim Ticket, A Head-On Attack On Christians – Ex-SGF

July 15, 2022 3:46 am

Babachir Lawal who is a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation has once again berated the decision of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to run with a Northern Muslim candidate, Kashim Shettima.

While speaking, he described the Muslim-Muslim ticket as a direct attack on Christians, pointing out that the party produced a Muslim presidential candidate while knowing that most of the party officials from the North are all Muslims.

This, he said, had resulted in an outcry by the Christian community in the party, especially from northern Nigeria.

Lawal was …

2023 Muslim-Muslim Ticket Act Of God – APC Chairman, Adamu

2023: Muslim-Muslim Ticket Act Of God – APC Chairman, Adamu

July 13, 2022 3:34 pm

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, on Wednesday, assured Christians in Nigeria that they have nothing to fear with the joint ticket of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima ahead of the 2023 presidential election, insisting that the decision was ‘the work and the will of God.’

Adamu made the declaration in Daura on Wednesday when he led the party’s National Working Committee on a Sallah visit to President Muhammadu Buhari.

He also informed journalists that he and his team were in Daura to brief the President on what transpired in Osun State on …

2023 Muslim-Muslim Ticket, A Disastrous Error – Ex-SGF Lawal

2023: Muslim-Muslim Ticket, A Disastrous Error – Ex-SGF Lawal

July 13, 2022 3:27 am

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has described the decision of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to pick Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate as a ‘disastrous error’.

In a statement which was obtained by Africa Daily News, New York, Lawal added his voice to the raging controversy that has been trailing the party’s Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Lawal pointed out that he saw the decision coming and he had made his reservations known to the proponents long before the announcement was made.

He disclosed he suspected that Tinubu …

Muslim - Muslim Ticket APC Is Terrorists Party – HURIWA

Muslim- Muslim Ticket: APC Is Terrorist’s Party – HURIWA

July 12, 2022 5:12 am

Following the decision by the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu to pick a Muslim as running mate, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has described the ruling party as a terrorists political party.

According to the group, it is now time for all patriotic Nigerians to reject the ruling party at the 2023 Presidential poll.

This was coming on the heels of the emergence of Kashim Shettima as running mate to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu,

According to HURIWA, Shettima is nothing but a hardcore …

Musliim-Muslim Ticket CAN Sends Strong Message To APC, Tinubu

Musliim-Muslim Ticket: CAN Sends Strong Message To APC, Tinubu

July 11, 2022 3:21 am

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has declared that it was not moved by the announcement of another Muslim, Senator Kashim Shettima as the running mate of the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

The umbrella Christian organisation asserted that its leaders were determined to stand their ground against every form of intimidation, including the floating of a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket by the political party.

The association’s chairman, Kaduna state chapter, Rev. John Hayab, made this known while speaking to reporters in the Kaduna State capital on Sunday.

Africa Daily News, New …

Muslim-Muslim Ticket Unacceptable To Christians – Bishop Warns

Muslim-Muslim Ticket Unacceptable To Christians – Bishop Warns

June 13, 2022 5:00 am

The presiding Bishop and General Superintendent of Grace of God Mission International, Bishop Paul Nwachukwu, has reiterated that Nigeria is a secular state and that a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the 2023 presidential election would never be acceptable to Christians all over the country.

Nwachukwu admonished two leading political parties that have chosen Muslims as their flag bearers to remember that picking Muslims as their running mates also will amount to neglect of Christians.

Delivering his sermon on Sunday, with the title, ‘the battle I will like to lose’, he said: ‘I want the political class to bear in mind that …

Don’t Stop Mosque Prayers – Scholar Warns Buhari

Muslims Are Immune, Don’t Stop Mosque Prayers – Scholar

March 19, 2020 12:26 pm

A renowned Islamic Scholar, Dr. Abubakr Imam Aliagan, has warned the President Muhammadu Buhari government, the Sultanate Council and Muslim authorities, not to shut down mosques in Nigeria over coronavirus.

Aliagan is a Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN).

He spoke on Wednesday while reacting to the suspension of congregational prayers at Saudi Arabia.

Saudi had on Tuesday stopped the performance of the customary five daily prayers and the weekly Jumuat (Friday) prayer at other worship centres excluding the two holy mosques in Makkah and Madina.

But Aliagan told PRNigeria that Nigerian Muslim males

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Gunmen Fire On Buses Carrying Muslim Sri Lankan Voters

November 17, 2019 3:01 pm

Gunmen fired at buses carrying minority Muslim voters on Saturday as Sri Lankans elected a new president, with the powerful Rajapaksa clan eyeing a comeback seven months after Islamist extremists staged deadly bombings.

Minority Tamils and Muslims are seen as crucial in the close election, and the attack in the northwest of the island — in which no one was injured — was likely aimed at deterring people from heading to the polls.

But election chief Mahinda Deshapriya said over 80 percent of the 15.99 million electorate was estimated to have turned out Saturday, compared to 81.5 percent at the …

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