The religious heads under the aegis of the Nigerian Coalition of Pastors for Good Leadership said as far as the presidential race is concerned, Nigeria is left with only two candidates, Bola Tinubu and Labour Party (LP) candidate Peter Obi.
The clerics, however, said the candidate of the APC has the right frame of mind to rule the country and is the best for the highest political position in the country come 2023.
Naija News understands that the Pastors stated this after a town hall meeting with some party chieftains of Tinubu’s support group, City Boy Movement.
In a statement jointly signed by the coalition president, Apostle Babatunde Oguntimehin,and secretary, Revd Friday Obi, the Christian spiritual heads said they are advocates of power shift and chose to support Tinubu being the ‘best’ when compared to Obi.
According to the clerics, it would be unfair for Nigerians to sacrifice the capacity of the APC candidate on the altar of the contentious Muslim-Muslim ticket.
The statement read: “It is with a deep sense of duty that we members of Nigerian Coalition of Pastors for Good Leadership decide this morning to make known our position on the coming national election, especially as it concerns the vexed issue of Muslim-Muslim ticket as adopted by the ruling APC.
Our primary responsibility will be less arduous with a functional nation and a working system. Given this, we have considered it a civic responsibility and a noble cause to support and promote the candidates that can best serve the interest of our nation toward realizing her dreams.
“For a start, we fully support the power shift to the South after President Muhammadu Buhari, a northerner would have ruled for eight years. This is for equity and fairness and in the spirit of the existing unwritten rule to have power rotate between North and South.
He added that the APC national leader had remained loyal to the cause of Nigeria, which was demonstrated through his involvement in NADECO activities that brought the military to its knees and ushered in the current democracy in 1999.
“We have since noted that making religion or faith the top factor in choosing a candidate for the nation has never helped and will never help this nation. We cannot, therefore, sacrifice quality leadership on the altar of religion or tribe.
It is therefore with sadness that we note the unnecessary controversies that have trailed the partnership of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, both of whom are Muslims.
“It would be pretentious and preposterous of the NCPGL to dismiss the concerns from some quarters over the Muslim-Muslim ticket. But it is important to urge Nigerians to look beyond religion in choosing the nation’s leadership,” he said.
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