Orji Kalu backs Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket

Senate Chief Whip, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu,  has said there is nothing wrong if the All Progressives Congress (APC) decides to field a Muslim-Muslim ticket at the 2023 presidential election.

He told newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday that the paramount issue was for the APC to win the presidential election.

He argued that a southern minority Muslim and a northern minority Christian couldn’t win a presidential election in Nigeria.

“Do you want me to speak the truth? If I am Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose wife is a senior pastor at a Pentecostal Church, I will go for a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

“The most important thing is for the party to win. We should stop the issue of whether you put a Christian there or not.

“After all if we win, the wife is already a pastor. This is my own opinion, and you cannot deny me my opinion.

Kalu also told newsmen that a party could also play a Christian-Christian ticket, depending on the scenario.

He added that it would be almost difficult for the APC to win the election in 2023 if Tinubu does not play a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

“I know the Church I go to. There is nothing wrong with a Muslim-Muslim ticket, just as there is nothing wrong with a Christian-Christian ticket.

“Tinubu is a minority Muslim from the south, and if you pick a Christian from the north, it will be a minority Christian, and you cannot play two minorities; it is difficult.

He said, however, that his submissions were not those of the APC, but those of Orji Kalu.

(NAN)