The Nigerian Youth Coalition, NYC, has warned the All Progressives Congress against picking a Muslim as running mate to its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who is also a Muslim as this would cause a deep religious crisis.
NYC’s National President, Aare Oladotun Hassan, and Publicity Secretary, Sebastian Danjibril, stated these in a statement co-signed by them and made available to journalists in Abuja on Monday.
The country will sit on the brink of an imminent religious war, if the All Progressive Congress (APC) considers a joint Muslim-Muslim Ticket, when the issue of alleged Islamisation agenda, terrorism and unguarded comments on ethnic bigotry which are capable of jeopardising the fragile peace in Nigeria are yet to be addressed,” they warned.
The coalition however canvassed support for the Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (Northern region), Rev. Yakubu Pam, to emerge as Tinubu’s presidential running mate in 2023.
According to them, the antecedents of the Northern CAN chairman, who doubles as the Executive Secretary of Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission, made him fit to be able to fix the problems of the country.