The Youth Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (YOWICAN) says any political party that fields a Muslim/Muslim or Christian/Christian ticket will lose the 2023 presidential election.
YOWICAN said in an event that such combination happens; it will mobilise to make sure that the arrangement does not succeed.
Beluso Chukwu Enwere, national chairman of YOWICAN, stated this during a press conference at the National Christian Centre, Abuja on Monday.
There are permutations that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, a southern Muslim would pick a Muslim northerner as running mate.
But the YOWICAN president said the call for a Muslim/Muslim ticket by certain individuals was callous and deceptive, a move with sinister agenda and a true definition of bigotry.
Enwere said: “It is a slap on the entire Christiandom. A ploy to destabilise the nation; this is an insult that devalues, and dehumanises millions of Christians.
“Are you telling Nigerians that there is no competent northern Christian that can be in a position of trust? Does it imply that northern Christians are not regarded as northerners?
“If we claim that we are together and the north is united as the northerners make us to believe, then they should have no reason to reject a northerner because he or she is a Christian. There is no other time better than now for our northern brothers to prove to us that they are one.
“In the spirit of ethnoreligious balancing and to foster integration and national unity amongst all tribes and religion, Nigeria needs oneness and togetherness.”
