Nigeria’s Senate Chief Whip and former Abia State governor, Senator Orji Kalu, has said that there is nothing wrong if the All Progressives Congress, APC decides to field a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the 2023 presidential election.
This was his reaction today at the National Assembly, to various groups including the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Catholic Society of Nigeria who have warned political parties against fielding a Muslim-Muslim ticket in the 2023 presidential election.
Kalu, while addressing journalists, told Christians that there was nothing to fear as Bola Tinubu’s wife is a pastor who would always have the interest of the people at heart.
“Let me tell you, in my house, my wife is the head of the house in reality. Even you men that are here, now that your wives aren’t here, they are the head. Like if I wear this clothe, my wife will tell me ‘My dear, this clothe is not good remove it’. Your wife will tell you you are supposed to eat Akara and Akamu, whether you argue with her, you must take that Akamu and your wife want you to pay children school fees, whether you argue or not, you must pay.
The former governor, whose preferred presidential aspirant, Ahmad Lawan, lost the APC primary election, said Tinubu, a minority Muslim from the South cannot afford to pick a minority Christian from the North as a running mate.
“But you can also play Christian-Christian ticket depending on the scenario. Because if we don’t play the Muslim-Muslim ticket, we are in trouble,” Kalu said of the chances of the APC in the 2023 presidential election.
“It will be difficult to win the election because the only thing left for Ahmed Tinubu today is to play Muslim-Muslim ticket,” Kalu added while speaking to members of the Senate Press Corps at the foyer of the White House section of the National Assembly complex on Wednesday.
“Well, I am very satisfied with the primary. Without that kind of primary, there would have been a lot of factions but today, the primary was very transparent, very open, people voted one by one.
