Oyinehi Ejoga, chairman of the Northern States Christian Elders Forum, urged Christians on Saturday to reject the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, to avoid becoming irrelevant in future elections.Information Guide Nigeria

Ejoga told delegates at the NOSCEF national convention in Kaduna that the APC and its presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s insistence on running on the same religion ticket demonstrated that the party had no regard for Christians in the country.

Tinubu’s selection of Senator Kashim Shettima, a fellow Muslim and former governor of Borno State, aroused considerable debate, with many Nigerians characterizing it as an attempt to insult Christians.

He stated, “Unpatriotic politicians will use any formula they can apply to win elections, whether it hurts or not, and they promise to placate people as APC is doing after all the pleas.

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“Make the single faith ticket unattractive for the future by killing it now or render yourselves forever an irrelevant component in the election equation in the future. A people easily persuaded by personal and selfish gains to the destruction of the body will be a Judas to Christendom. Let us be men and women of principles and loyalty to God.

“We enjoin all lovers of Nigeria across faith to reject the single faith ticket to frustrate politics of exclusion that is mindful of regional balance but insensitive to faith inclusion.”

The guest speaker at the event, Prof Josiah Onaolapo, said the 2023 general elections could be a threat to the political viability of Northern Christians if they do not act right.

Speaking on the theme, ‘Politics today: which way for Northern Christians’, Onalapo stated, “Christians must join politics. After God, politics directs the country. So the church should be part and parcel of those that direct Nigeria. If Christians are serious in politics, we won’t be where we are today. The church had been acting as a moral compass without being practitioners. So, it is time we wake up.”