Rashidi Ladoja, a former governor of Oyo State, stated on Saturday that running a Muslim-Muslim ticket for president the following year would be acceptable.
A Muslim-Muslim ticket is not a novel idea in Nigeria, according to Ladoja, who made this observation while speaking to reporters in Ibadan, the capital of the Oyo state.
According to reports, Ladoja is expressing his opinion on the delicate matter of whether or not Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential candidate, should pick a Muslim as his running mate because he is a Muslim.
However, Ladoja said that choosing the nation’s leaders should never be based on a person’s religious beliefs.
He said: “A Muslim-Muslim ticket is a reality. It is not something new in Nigeria.
“I don’t see anything wrong in Muslim-Muslim ticket, because I don’t intervene in the religion matters. Muslims and Christians are from the same father, Abraham is known as Ibrahim in Islam.
“Some people are following Ismail, while some are following Isaac who are siblings. So, what is now my own to be fighting for one among them.
“Even, I don’t have time to fight with the traditionalists. It is only God that knows his servants; so, why must we fight over religion.
“But, when gunmen started attacking churches and kidnapping clerics in Christendom, people started doubting their fellow brothers who belong to another religion.”
