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From John Adams Minna
As the race to the 2027 general elections gathers momentum, a former commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism and Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress APC in Niger state, Hon Jonathan Vatsa, has advised Governor Umaru Mohammed Bago to consider a Christian Deputy Governor in 2027 to address what he called “open marginalization of Christians by the present administration in the state.
Vatsa said it would guarantee an automatic victory for the party in the forthcoming general elections in the state.
Speaking with newsmen in Minna, yesterday, amid growing complaints by the Christian community in the state over the outcome of the party primaries where all the candidates for various political offices are Muslims, Vatsa maintained that such arrangements cannot help the party in the general elections.
He disclosed that only one house of assembly candidate from Munya local government was left for the entire Christians.
The former publicity secretary of the party in the state said it was unfortunate that no Christian aspirant was qualified to be picked in “the government house arranged consensus/selection of candidates”.
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Vatsa said the open display of likeness for the Christians by the governor Umaru Mohammed Bago does not in any way reflect the reality on the ground, stressing the Christians are heavily marginalized in both political appointments and elective positions in the state.
He argued that from the last “appointment” of local government Chairmen and their vice, to the just concluded party primaries where candidates were merely selected, Christians were carefully and deliberately sidelined.
According to him the marginalization of Christians in the state is so obvious, adding that “All the 25 local government chairmen in the state are Muslims, 98 percent of the Vice Chairperson are Muslims.
“Again when you look at the candidates for all the elective positions for the 2027 elections, the three Senatorial candidates are Muslims, the 11 house of representative candidates are Muslims and 26 out of the 27 house of assembly candidates are Muslims.
“This is a sharp contrast to the open display of likeness for Christians in the state by the governor who presided over the selection of candidates for the 2027 elections at the government, he stated.
