Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta State and vice presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, claimed on Wednesday that the decision by the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC) to field a Muslim-Muslim ticket in the midst of Nigeria’s current problems was a betrayal of trust.
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A Muslim-Muslim ticket shouldn’t be the way out, according to Okowa, who spoke with newsmen, “in a country where you have a shaky basis, where people are getting sensitive to concerns.”
He said;
It is unfortunate what we see in Nigeria politics today because there are so many conversations out there, people are not really looking at the reality that we have in this country, but the question is, in a fractured country where you have voices of dissent, people don’t seem to trust each any more.
The PDP Presidential running mate stressed;
In a country that you have a shaky foundation, where people are getting sensitive to issues because of a high level of failure of trust, if you go for a Muslim Muslim ticket that Trust deficit becomes private, so there are issues.
Unfortunately, people are just hanging on anything, they want to reach out because they want votes, even at the detriment of their faith. I don’t believe that is the right way to go.
“In a country where every man in the South-East is looking at different directions, the man in the North is looking at different directions, people from the South-West has a voice of its own; when you put these together, we don’t need a soothsayer to tell you that something is really wrong.”
There are so many voices of anger expressed in several ways, and we have begun to have distortions on the foundation and a fraction of the foundation that holds the country together when you see such a thing you should be frightened for Nigeria.
