2023: Group Urges APC to Manage Success in Selecting Tinubu's Running Mate

MATHIAS DAMINA
Leader of Concerned APC Stakeholders

 A Concerned All Progressive Congrwss APC Stakeholders has advised the party to be careful of how it manages its success in terms of selection of Tinubu's running comes 2023 general election.

The group is on the opinion that it will not be proper for the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to pick a Northern Muslim as his running mate.

Leader of the group Mathias Damina while having an interactive session with journalists in Bauchi says those clamouring for Muslim-Muslim ticket are enemies of not only Tinubu, but also APC.

He said, "Going down the memory lane, when in 2014 Muhammadu Buhari emerged as the presidential flag bearer of the APC, the issue of running mate from the South was amicably resolved when Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu named (Prof Yemi) Osinbajo in place of his humble self to balance the equation rather than having the Muslim-Muslim ticket."

"With commitment, the Northern Christian minority can do even more than their Muslim counterparts. The minority should not be underrated.

“Once Tinubu concludes for a Muslim-Muslim ticket, the opposition will start singing songs of victory and that should never happen during our time,” Danima said.

While congratulating Tinubu on his emergence as APC presidential candidate, the group’s leader said his (Tinubu’s) victory at the party’s primary election had proven those who envisaged doom for the party wrong.