A former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung, Sunday, said a “joint presidential religious ticket is ill-wind that blows nobody good”.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that all eyes are on Bola Tinubu as he resolves the jigsaw puzzle surrounding his running mate as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) this week.
Tinubu has up till Friday to submit the name of his vice presidential candidate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The knotty issue has been whether the running mate, who should be from the North, must be a Muslim.
The presidential candidate currently has a placeholder in the column reserved for his vice presidential candidate in his form with INEC as an interim measure.
Rumours emerged last week that Tinubu will pick a Muslim running mate, with Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, declaring that the former Lagos State governor has settled for a joint presidential religious ticket.
Reacting, Dalung, a former member of the APC, is displeased with the development.
“Whether Christians, Muslims, traditionalists, atheists, freethinkers, we are Nigerians. We must recognize and tolerate one another, anything to the contrary is threat to our diversity. Joint presidential religious ticket is ill wind that blows nobody’s good. On multiculturalism I stand,” Dalung said via his known Facebook page.
To all backward dunces in the class of Solomon Dalung,