PDP Mocks APC On Endorsing Senator Akpabio Over Muslim Ticket. Daniel Bwala, spokesman for the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, has chastised politicians who endorse Senator Godswill Akpabio for Senate President and advocate for religious balancing in the polity.
Bwala claimed that lawmakers campaigning for a Christian Senate President were the same ones who chastised him before the 2023 elections for condemning the All Progressives Congress (APC) Muslim-Muslim ticket.
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On Monday, the PDP chieftain said he had been vindicated because the same people who believed religious balancing does not matter for the Presidency now believe it does for the Senate Presidency.
As I listen to politicians today (from the highest to the lowest levels) vehemently advocating for my good, he said.
I take solace in the fact that it was these same politicians from both religions who vilified me at the time for taking a principled stand on religious balancing in the polity; they said it didn’t matter then, but it matters now.
“I feel vindicated. But whether they are too late in their argument or not will be determined tomorrow.”
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Bwala made the remarks just hours after Vice President Kashim Shettima claimed that the country’s current political system needed the emergence of a southern Christian and a northern Muslim as the best balance to foster inclusivity at the center.
He revealed this during a meeting with Senators running for re-election.
On Sunday, he spoke with senators advocating for the election of Akpabio and Senator Barau Jibrin to lead the 10th Senate.
