Supporting Muslim-Muslim ticket doesn’t make us less Christians – Fani-Kayode

A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has declared that supporting the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress in the 2023 presidential election does not make him less Christian than those who did not support the cause.

Mr Fani-Kayode, the Director of New Media of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, made this known through a Twitter post on Tuesday.

In apparent reaction to the leaked audio conversation between the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, and the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo, the former minister urged Nigerian Christian leaders not drag themselves into what he described as a ‘religious war.’

He said: “It is now left for the revered and respected leaders of the Body of Christ to disavow themselves of the hideous “religious war” agenda of Peter Obi and publicly disassociate themselves from his villainous, venal, venomous, vile and evil agenda.

“If they choose to get involved in politics they must be discerning, reasonable, fair, impartial, wise and balanced and they must stop being partisan and condemning others for their choices.

“They must also accept the fact that simply because millions of us supported a Muslim/Muslim ticket does not make us any less Christian than others.

“This is especially so when the majority of those others were as silent as church mice when it mattered the most and when Christians were being butchered, slaughtered and persecuted all over the country.

“Unlike some of us they said and did nothing when this was going on and they refused to speak truth to power.”

The statement further said, “We did not risk our lives and fight Islamic fundamentalism in this country to replace it with Christian fundamentalism. Two wrongs do not make a right.

“Religious bigotry, whether Muslim or Christian, must be rejected and condemned by all.

“We must never allow sectarian and religious considerations to determine our politics or the choices we make in terms of leadership.

“Before being Christians or Muslims we are Nigerians and we are all proud sons and daughters of the greatest, most unique, most versatile, most blessed, most beautiful and most dynamic multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural nation on earth.”