A human rights group, HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA), has decried the Muslim-Muslim joint presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 general elections. HURIWA in a statement declared that “following the unconstitutional and illegal decision despite all entreaties to the contrary of a Muslim running mate by the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the platform known as All Progressives Congress (APC) has been described by the HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) as a BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS POLITICAL PARTY which all patriotic Nigerians must reject at the 2023 Presidential poll.”
HURIWA protested the Tinubu’s announcement of former Governor Shettima Kashim of Borno State on Sunday as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election. HURIWA described Shettima as “a hardcore Islamist and hater of Christians,” arguing that the decision of Tinubu to pick a Muslim running mate is irresponsible, irrational, unpatriotic, unconstitutional and clearly shows that the Islamists and terrorists of the Boko Haram and ISWAP genre have actively hijacked the All Progressives Congress so as to declare full Islamic State in Nigeria.
HURIWA, then, enjoined Nigerians to make their choice of the best President of the country between the joint candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed; and the joint candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, noting that in the consideration of the group, any vote donated to the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress is a vote for the disintegration of Nigeria after the exit of President Muhammadu Buhari, assuming without conceding that the APC will win.
HURIWA recalled that the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Tinubu on Sunday confirmed Senator Kashim Shettima as his vice presidential candidate.
Tinubu paying Sallah homage to President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura Sunday afternoon, revealed his choice of a running mate at the country home of the President.
HURIWA slammed Tinubu on the decision, arguing that the experience of a Muslim-Muslim ticket in Kaduna State by Governor Nasir El-Rufai has shown that the government formed by all Muslims chief executives inevitably connives with terrorists to kill Christians just as the Rights group said it amounts to discrimination of the non-Muslims which constitute an infraction against Section 42(1) of the Constitution and violation of broad-based composition of government as spelt out in section 14(3) of the Constitution on Federal Character Principles in a appointments in Nigeria.