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2023: Northern APC stakeholders protest Lalong’s choice as campaign DG

Some supporters of All Progressives Congress (APC) under the aegis of APC North-Central stakeholders across the six north-central states, including the FCT, have protested the…

Some supporters of All Progressives Congress (APC) under the aegis of APC North-Central stakeholders across the six north-central states, including the FCT, have protested the appointment of Plateau State Governor, Simon Bako Lalong, as the Director General of APC Presidential Campaign Council.

The protesters who stormed the Unity Fountain and others major streets in the territory on Tuesday in Abuja also marched to the Presidential Villa to submit a protest letter to the President over the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by the party.

The placard-wielding protesters had various inscriptions including ‘On North Central Christian vice-presidential candidate we stand’, Lalong is on his own!’ ‘Dear Asiwaju, keep your DG’ and ‘Give us a Christian VP’.

Leader of the group, Mr. Dauda Yakubu, said various indices at play so far within the APC does not suggest that the Christians from Northern Nigeria are considered in the party’s scheme of affairs.

He also described the appointment of Lalong as campaign DG of the party as an insult to the north-central region, saying they would only accept the position of the vice president.

According to him, stakeholders in the party especially northern Christians felt humiliated by the actions of the party’s leadership in recent times, which he said do not demonstrate ethnic and religious inclusion.

He urged President Muhammadu Buhari to clear his role and make his position known on the party’s same faith ticket to the public.

“We feel the appointment of Governor Simon Bako Lalong as the Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council is an insult to our collective sensibilities as a devoted party faithful in North Central.

“We came from far and near to witness first-hand news making the rounds that you indeed sanctioned the Muslim-Muslim Ticket of our party. There have also been insinuations that the vice-presidential ticket was not given to a Northern Christian because you supported it.

“We know you to be an advocate of unity. ethnic and religious inclusion. But again, we are short of words with the news making the rounds: hence this open letter in a protest march to hear from you that you were indeed in support of a Muslim-Muslim Ticket,” Yakubu said.

He said that so many questions are left unanswered in their minds regarding the position of the party in the interest of Northern Christians.

He said, “We beg to ask the question of if a Northern Christian is good enough to lead the Presidential Campaign Council, why then is a Northern Christian not good enough to be nominated as the Vice Presidential Candidate of our party?

“It is our considered position that the lines are not connecting for us as stakeholders of the party in the North Central zone of the country. And consequently, we demand explanations as to why our interests have been jettisoned using a yardstick that defeats common sense.”

He urged the party leadership to convoke an emergency meeting to reflect the wishes and interests of northern Christians in the composition of the presidential team of the party for the 2023 presidential elections.

He said something fundamental is wrong as the forum was convinced beyond doubt that President Buhari cannot have sanctioned such a move by his antecedent as a unifier and an advocate of peace.

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