{"id":207034,"date":"2022-07-31T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T12:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=207034"},"modified":"2022-07-31T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T12:49:13","slug":"2023-presidency-why-northern-christians-wont-vote-atiku-okechukwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/31\/2023-presidency-why-northern-christians-wont-vote-atiku-okechukwu\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Presidency: Why Northern Christians won\u2019t vote Atiku \u2013 Okechukwu"},"content":{"rendered":"

A foundation member of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has explained why Northern Christians would not vote for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n

The Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), stated this while reacting to the Northern Christians outrage over APC\u2019s Muslim-Muslim ticket in Abuja.<\/p>\n

Okechukwu said he shares their anguish on identity politics and fears, but knows that in the fullness of time, contrary to the speculations of spin doctors, they would not vote for the former Vice President.<\/p>\n

The Enugu State APC chieftain said assured that whatever marginalisation the Northern Christians suffered today, they would suffer no more if the APC standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu<\/a> becomes the President in 2023.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cOur first slogan in APC is change. Our mantra is change. We will not remain static, never. We will change whatever is not working. All we ask Nigerians is to give us another 8 years as you gave our sister political party, the PDP.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRegarding the Northern Christians<\/a> outrage over APC\u2019s Muslim-Muslim ticket; if any pundit thinks they will vote for Atiku, my answer is \u2018Capital No\u2019. No matter what, they know he is bringing nothing new to the table.<\/p>\n

\u201cFind out, Northern Christians do not trust Atiku. They know his cherry-picking antics as per rule of law and rotation convention. They also know his ambivalence on religion, as demonstrated in the late Deborah\u2019s imbroglio in Sokoto, which is still fresh in the mind of every Christian.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecondly, they know that Tinubu and by extension the Yorubas\u2019 DNA is devoid of religious extremism and bigotry. Yorubas celebrate Eid and Xmas together.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a matter of fact, without being personal, one was a witness when my dear friend Babachir Lawal informed the world during his Thanksgiving Church Service at ECWA Wuse, that Tinubu and Pa Akande were instrumental to his appointment as Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF). May one ask, is it possible that neither Tinubu nor Pa Akande didn\u2019t know any Northern Muslim then to lobby for? Or has Tinubu changed 360 degrees?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThirdly, they\u2019re fully aware that Atiku has violently breached the rotation convention of president from north to south and painfully by extension of the PDP\u2019s Constitution. For Atiku rotation convention is north-south geopolitically benched, only when he wins the president. If he fails as in 2019, the rotation convention goal post must be shifted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is on record that Atiku enjoyed and celebrated rotation convention when in 2018, Governor Nyeson Wike and other Southerners in obedience to the letters and spirit of Section 3(c) of PDP\u2019s Constitution allowed only Northern presidential aspirants to contest in Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in 2022 PDP presidential primary election he fought tooth and nail to jettison the rotation convention, arguing childishly that it is not applicable to PDP? Hence breached Section 3(c) of PDP\u2019s Constitution. Some of us Southerners are as hurt as Northern Christians over this willful breach.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, faith balance is very important in building bonds of inclusion, so is rotation convention which bonds north and south, and cements inclusion and corporate existence. This is why I continue to salute APC\u2019s Northern Governors, majority of whom unlike PDP\u2019s Governors by this noble patriotism, restored equity, natural justice and national loyalty in our clime.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf PDP Governors had obeyed rotation convention from north to south, to be honest there wouldn\u2019t be the imperative of APC\u2019s Muslim-Muslim Ticket. They cannot benefit from their negligence. I stand to be contradicted,\u201d Okechukwu stated emphatically.<\/p>\n

On the anger of the Northern Christians over a seeming premeditated plan to exclude all Christians in both the APC party structure and government, Okechukwu maintained that he shares their plight, assuring that \u201csuch marginalisation would not repeat itself under Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are witnesses when Dr Umaru Dikko as Transport Minister, was more powerful than Vice President, when Mrs Diezani Madueke as Petroleum Minister was more powerful than Vice President and recently, how powerful Abba Kyari (of blessed memory) was as Chief of Staff to the President. Therefore, Christians nationwide should give APC another chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said everybody in Nigeria knows Tinubu\u2019s antecedents as Governor of Lagos State, describing him as a master of sourcing for the best from every creed, tribe and tongue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI maintain that the next APC\u2019s Federal Government must as a matter of urgent national importance adopt the good policies of the current administration, contain the palpable insecurity in the land and build new bonds of brotherhood,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He summed up that throughout history, there are no two successive regimes that are identical in every particular matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, it is only President Buhari\u2019s regime that has the credit record of continuity of 98% of abandoned and ongoing roads, rails, and other infrastructural projects in Nigeria, both at federal, state and local councils for over five decades,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A foundation member of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has explained why Northern Christians would not vote for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in 2023 general elections. 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