I would want every Nigerian reading this piece to sincerely answer this question: Which of our politicians is really a Christian or Muslim in the true sense of the word?
I also asked myself a similar question a few years ago when I drove into the police station at Orile, Lagos, and saw a signpost prominently pasted to the fence. It read: Police Christian Fellowship. I was taken aback. ‘So, there are actually Christians among police people?’ I asked myself. So, who then are the ones doing all those bad things we’d rather not talk about on the roads? The Muslim ones? Nah!
How many times, as a motorist, has a policeman asked you whether you’re a Christian or Muslim before extorting money from you? What was the religion of the pension thieves, who ripped retirees of their entitlements? And the ex-governors that have been in and out of EFCC net, what faiths do they profess? What has religion got to do with unaccounted monies at the NNPC? Which religion encourages a governor to become itinerant and nomadic, and (mis)govern his state from the Internet?
Most of all, are Christians now buying cheaper gari and millet because Jonathan is president? Would Muslims not pay tax when and if Buhari becomes president? Would it take only a Muslim president to do something serious to halt desertification of our Northern states? Pray thee, what religion is potable water? Which mosque does poverty worship at?
Does it need only a Muslim president to genuinely dredge the River Niger? Is it only a Christian president that can do a Second Niger Bridge? And when that bridge is done, what religion would the governors of Delta and Anambra states have to be in order to fix the internal roads that would serve the new bridge? If two southern Christian presidents could not fix the East-West Road, maybe we should try a Muslim presidency from the North then?
I’ve gone into all this rigmarole in order to expose the hullabaloo going on (about the plot of the All Progressives Congress to put up a Muslim/Muslim ticket for next year’s presidential election) for what it is: An unnecessary noise. And that is even if APC would hold people at gunpoint to vote for such candidates. But that’s story for another forum.
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