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Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has justified his support for the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election.
While appearing on Channels Television’s ‘Sunday Politics’, El-Rufai stated that it was a deliberate decision to secure electoral victory, adding that it was not a religious strategy.
“It was a political strategy; it was a strategy to win the election; it was not a religious strategy.
“When you are contesting an election, you look at every variable, every index, every criterion that will help you win. It has nothing to do with religion,” El-Rufai stated.
Speaking further, the former governor said concerns over religious exclusion were unfounded and referenced Kaduna, where he also ran on the Muslim-Muslim ticket.
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“So long as we continue to speculate on these issues, we will not solve them. We have done a Muslim-Muslim ticket now. Tell me in what way Christians are now short-changed; nothing.
“No leader who wants to succeed will limit his choice of appointees to a particular religion or ethnicity.
“If you want to succeed, you have to diversify. Now we have cured the fear and the love for the Muslim-Muslim ticket. It has been done, buried, and gone.
“I did a Muslim-Muslim ticket in Kaduna; I want to know which Christian in Kaduna was short-changed because of it.”
