President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Dr. Samson Ayokunle, has said CAN will mobilise all Christians in the country to produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in 2023 and that the body will also reject a Muslim/ Muslim or Christian/ Christian ticket.
He solicited for the support and unity of Christian political leaders across the six geo-political zones to bring the vision to reality Rev. Ayokunle disclosed this on Sunday in Jos during an interview with journalists after a church sermon he preached on a theme “Defeating your enemies through the power of unity”, which was held at COCIN Church Rahwol Kanang, Jos, Plateau State.
The CAN President cautioned the political parties in the country against heating up the polity with either Christian/Christian ticket or Muslim/ Muslim presidential ticket come the 2023 general election.
“Christian politicians should brace up and make themselves available for leadership, it is time. A Muslim is getting out of office and in a country where God has naturally divided us into hundreds of millions, then a Christian politician should be ready to take over leadership.
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“That is the wisdom that will make this nation survive, when all the ethnic and religious groups are given fair play in the scheme of things; and Christians voters also should be able to vote wisely this time around.
“Let me say it clearly that any party that presents a Christian/Christian or Muslim/Muslim ticket is going to fail in 2023. We will mobilise the Christian body to fight against that proposition. “No politician out of his own personal ambition should disregard the sensibility of our society. Nigeria is a plural society with complexities, we must learn to manage it very well so that we can give everybody a sense of belonging,” he said.
He described Christians and Muslims as critical partners in the running of Nigeria as no faith can leave out the other in political calculation ahead of the 2023 presidential election and win independently.
“I want both Christians and Muslims to come to an understanding that will continue to keep us together and the nation,” he added. He emphasized that united Christians in Nigeria stand, divided they fall, adding that Christians have the population that outsmart the number of votes President Muhammadu Buhari garnered in the 2019 election.
