2023: El-Rufai Dismisses Calls Against Muslim-Muslim Ticket, says Clamour is Sad and Pathetic



By Jatdul Andrew

Nasir El-Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna State, has dismissed the calls against a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket, citing that the fixation of Nigerians on religion instead of conscience, capacity and capability is sad and pathetic.

El-Rufai spoke during an interview session with Channels TV when asked about his opinion on the task ahead of the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

He said he does not care if the President and his vice are all Muslim or all Christians, insisting that what matters at this point is the delivery of good governance.

He explained that he is the wrong person to be asked the question about a Muslim-Muslim ticket as he won the 2019 election with a Muslim-Muslim ticket in Kaduna state despite some speculations that he would lose.

Buttressing his point, Governor El-Rufai recalled that it was a Lagos-based Pentecostal pastor, Tunde Bakare that brought him into the CPC in 2014 and not President Muhammadu Buhari as it is believed by the general public.

“I don’t look at people from Muslim-Muslim or Christian-Christian angle. Most of my closest friends are Christians,” he said.

“It was Pastor Tunde Bakare, a pentecostal pastor, that took me to CPC, not President Buhari. I’m very close to Bakare. I’m very close to many Christians.

“I don’t think the business of governance has anything to do with religion. I think we should look for the best person for the job. A person that will get the job done and let him do that.

“I’m the wrong person to ask because in my State I picked a very competent and qualified woman as a running mate in the 2019 election but just because she happens to be a Muslim people were calling it ‘Muslim-Muslim ticket’ and they said we were going to lose but we won overwhelmingly.

“This fixation of Nigerians on religion instead of conscience, capacity and capability is quite sad and pathetic and I urge you as the media, please take religion out of governance. I don’t think we should be looking at religion.

“Let’s develop this country… Nigeria is at crossroads, we face very serious dangers in security, in economic meltdown…but all people are concerned as far as who will be President or Vice president is concerned, is religion. It’s so sad. It’s not our religions that will solve our problems,” El-Rufai explained.

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