A former Deputy-Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Moghalu, has said the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is a “political calculation” and not a declaration of religious war.
KEMI FILANI NEWS recalls that the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu announced a fellow Muslim, Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at his Daura home in Katsina State on Sunday.
Moghalu said the sensitivity of religion in Nigeria today is why the issue has generated a lot of outcries.
He stated this via his official Twitter handle on Friday.
“As I said recently to a question on @ARISEtv, the APC Muslim-Muslim ticket was intended more as a political calculation than a declaration of “religious war,” he said.
The former CBN boss said Nigeria is not the same as the country left behind by Late MKO Abiola in 1993.
He added that the APC and its candidate’s decision to present a Muslim-Muslim ticket would be tested at the polls in 2023.
“Las las it is clear that Nigeria’s nationhood trajectory has gone downward rather than upward in the past three decades. Who, or what will be the real ‘unifier’? My answer: a fundamental constitutional re-engineering. #Restructuring.”
Recall that Moghalu lost the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential ticket to the owner of Roots Television Nigeria, Dumebi Kachikwu, at the party’s primary election last month in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.