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Tinubu’s Ticket Obsession:- Muslim/Muslim

Tinubu’s Ticket Obsession:- Muslim/Muslim

THE chances are that, by the time you read this article, the major presidential candidates on Nupeflaver.

Ex-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC; and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, would have announced their running mates.

Of the lot, Tinubu’s matter matters the most.

From the distant past when he started developing interest in becoming the president of Nigeria, he has always postulated that a Muslim/Muslim ticket “can work; competence is all that matters”.

If “competence” is all that matters, why not just pick a fellow Yoruba; they also have their share of competent people.

Why look for something in Sokoto when you can simply pick it from your Sokoto pocket? But hey, I perfectly understand his situation.

Tinubu as a seasoned political leader does not operate with logic or political niceties when looking for power. He goes for the expedient.

Whatever produces results he will deploy it. Know this about Tinubu’s politics and know peace. Tinubu is not a Muslim fanatic. He is a typical Yoruba Muslim to whom Islam is a religion, unlike the Northern Muslim to whom Islam is life.

Tinubu is also not necessarily an ethnic chauvinist, though he has taken several cynical measures which portray him in that light.

For instance, he has been accused of sponsoring hoodlums to prevent the Igbo residents of Lagos from registering and voting, apart from being accused of attempts to foment inter-tribal conflicts between Igbo and Yoruba, particularly after the EndSARS riots of October 2020.

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