JAGISTS

Bauchi – Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Yakubu Dogara, has declared that he is grateful he is not Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s running mate in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election.

The Nigerian Tribune newspaper reports that Dogara made the comment during an interaction with journalists in Bauchi recently.

Dogara was reacting to a question that he is not supporting the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate because he was not chosen as the vice presidential candidate of the ruling party.

“I guess that’s the only sensible thing to say if you want to deflect attention from the stark reality of prebendal politics that excludes nearly half the country. “With the benefit of a hindsight, I am more than grateful to God that it didn’t happen and so many friends and well wishers have also said to me they are thanking God daily that I am not on that ticket granted what they now see and know about the candidate.

Do you think most of the people following Tinubu today are blind? They see the danger but their bellies are open sepulchers so they price the food they anticipate would be on the table above national interest

.” Dogara also stated that Nigerians should be wary of those promoting the APC’s Muslim-Muslim ticket.

He said:

“The point I am trying to make is that those who promote same faith ticket and same faith voting are not just crazy, they are dangerous. They are as dangerous as those purveyors of hate on the basis of tribe or creed who demonise entire tribes and races.

The truth is that if good people like you and I do not rise up to stop them, those who are crazy enough to believe they will stop us from building an inclusive society will truly succeed in destroying this nation that we cherish so much. “So, we have an obligation to rise against those dangerous voices of hate and stereotypes and not just rise against them, but to quieten them so that all of us can collectively make history and build this country. “This is why I will never support a Christian-Christian ticket or a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural nation like Nigeria.”