Human rights lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) on Tuesday said no candidate or political party should undermine the Constitution by forcing a Muslim-Muslim ticket on Nigerians.
Gatekeepers News reports that Adegboruwa stated this in reaction to reports that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was considering picking a Northern Muslim as running mate to its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who is a Yoruba Muslim.
“Just perish the thought altogether,” Adegboruwa said in a statement titled “No Candidate or Political Party Can Undermine the Constitution”.
He wrote: “In the face of section 10 of the Constitution, where do we garner the banal courage to propagate a Muslim-Muslim ticket in this fractured entity?
The audacity of such barefaced heartlessness beats any imagination. What could be the rationale? Superiority of faith? Enforcement of international conspiracies? A new form of Jihad? Or is it a matter of distrust for or supposed inferiority of South West Muslims?
Or is it that the South West Muslim is not Muslim enough or Northern Christian not Northern enough? It is still the same elite, who throw up these bankrupt theories to create friction where there should be none. Even if the Christian population were to be less than it is now, the liberal concept of freedom of religion and thought should weigh in to balance the power equation.
A representative of the Muslim faith has been in the saddle since 2015, with little or no capacity to tame the monstrous incursion of the jihadists, who even descend on innocent Muslims without thought. And yet the statistics show that from the South-South to the South-East, there is an incontestable monopoly of faith across the land and some would have us believe that they do not matter.
In what way do we explain to those of them in Ondo, in Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States that they should continue to play second fiddle due to the recklessness of some power monsters who love to deploy religion as a tool for power retention. Just perish the thought altogether.”
