A former member of the House of Representatives, Honourable Patrick Osahon Obahiagbon, aka Igodomigido, emerged from his political hiatus on Wednesday with a piece of advice to the presidential standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on his choice of a running mate.
In a release sent to THE CONCLAVE, Obahiagbon actually intended to stir the polity, task the presidential candidate and his team of media professionals on deconstruction of his advice that was couched in his trademark bombast.
What THE CONCLAVE Board of Editors could glean from the release by Obahiagbon is that Tinubu should consider picking a Muslim running mate from the North if he (Tinubu) wants to be in serious contestation for presidential power in 2023.
Read the Obahiagbon release as published hereunder in extenso:
“It’s not bewildering or politically discombobulating, in the least, that the search for a Vice-presidential candidate (running mate) to the Presidential candidate of the APC has assumed the rancorous decibel of one of our centrifugal national fault lines, which is religion.
“2. Would you really blame those who have decided to reduce an otherwise elevated matter of statecraft like the choice of a country’s Presidency to the prism of religious bigotry?
“3. It’s only a stranger from planet Uranus who has been completely oblivious of a viscerally and gangrenously religious and ethnically divided Nigeria in the last couple of years that would not take into immutable cognition the objurgations of the likes of the Christian Association of Nigeria and other persons against a Moslem/Moslem Presidential and Vice Presidential ticket.
“4. But the truth of the matter is that if APC and our Presidential Candidate want to be in serious contestation at all for presidential power, the impelling dictates of realpolitik is only propitious to the choice and emergence of a Muslim Vice Presidential candidate from the North-West or North-East.
“5. Who is that APC Northern Christian just now, with the requisite political hiceps and biceps to garner into the electoral kitty the much-needed complementary Nothern votes that our presidential candidate will need so badly to run away with victory for our party? I can’t see any with the greatest deference.
“6. I really don’t care much whom our Presidential candidate consults in so far as he realizes that the buck stops on his table.
“7.Finally, I do hope that all those concerned truly know that the presidential contestation ahead is not a tea party.”
Hon.Patrick Obahiagbon.
Former Members,
National Assembly.
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
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