Ordinarily religion should not be brought into politics but sadly the APC has done precisely that. They have introduced religion into politics in a very irresponsible, divisive and dangerous manner and they are using it as a political tool and as a means to capture power.
Those of you that are Christians and that are moderate Muslims that believe in a secular state and that are still in the APC need to think twice. It is like having black people as members of Ku Klux Klan.
It is like having Jews as members of Hitler’s Nazi party. It is like having black South Africans as members of the apartheid-loving, white-supremacist Boer Nationalist Party. It is like having Christians and moderate Muslims as members of Al Qaeda, the Taliban and Al Shabab. The difference between the APC and the PDP is that the former is a party that will only field a Muslim Presidential candidate at every point in time whilst the latter is quite capable of fielding either a Christian or a Muslim Presidential candidate at any point in time. The former is divisive whilst the latter is inclusive.
The former breeds and engenders a philosophy that is no different to that which was espoused by the Boers in apartheid South Africa: a philosophy that is established and enshrined on a platform of hate and division and that prides itself on the boastful assertion that some ethnic nationalities were ”born to rule” and that some faiths are more equal than others.
The latter encourages religious harmony and seeks to establish and build a plural society where adherents of all faiths, all ethnic nationalities and all tribes are regarded as being equal.
The PDP is for both Christians and Muslims and it believes in racial integration, religious tolerance and ethnic harmony. The APC is a Boko Haramite party that is for Muslim extremists only and a handful of Christians who really don’t know what they have got themselves into.
Such lost souls are in need of counselling. They forget that the wise ones say ”woe be unto any believer that seeks to join hands with others to bury Christ’s Church and to shame His people and His gospel”.
One of the more credible leaders in the APC is Sam Nda Isaiah, the Kakaki Nupe. He is the most formidable columnist in Nigeria and the publisher of the influential Leadership Newspaper. I know Sam very well and he is closer to me than a brother. We may not agree on everything but there is no doubt in my mind that he is a profoundly good man and a very serious-minded Christian. He is also forthright, cerebal, courageous, decisive and very tough.
He has Presidential ambitions and, in my view, he is just what Nigeria needs. The truth is that he would have made an excellent President. The only problem is that he is in the wrong party. Given the type of character and integrity that he has I really don’t know how Sam manages in the APC. I imagine that he spends a good deal of his time holding his nose and silently praying for his fellow party leaders. How I wish he was in the PDP. I consider it as a personal failing on my part that I could not persuade him to leave the APC when I parted ways with them.
If the APC had been a sensible or serious-minded set of people they would have fielded Sam as their candidate and paired him up with a muslim running mate from the south west but this will never happen because the Haramites and islamic fundamentalists in that party consider it to be ”their” platform.
Femi Aribisala made a very good point in his column in the Sunday Vanguard Newspaper and Premium Times last week when he wrote about the deep wisdom there was in the APC fielding a northern Christian candidate for next year’s Presidential elections if they really wished to get rid of their muslim fundamentalist tag. I agree with him.
Yet sadly the truth is that the APC will never allow a christian to be the candidate of their party and, as one of it’s key leaders once said to me in very plain and simple terms, such a thing would happen only over his ”dead body”.
