Simplythebest:
My problem is that Tinubu couldn't practice Muslim / Muslim ticket in his lagos state but want to force it on Nigerians. What a pity

Patrioticbreed9:

Just like what they are doing in KD.
Imagine that jocker saying that KD is muslim/muslim.

Give them time they go say plateu get up 20% muslims because of jos north.

Gombe is 60% christian forget wetin wikipedia tell you.. Dat wan na dogo turenci.

shariff84:
yes they are 60 percent christians that's why they are always ruled by Muslim!
If Muslim are the minority,then do your christian-christian ticket and win ur election.
That's how the like of you keep deceiving southern kaduna people and now we did m-m ticket and won. We also want to retry it this election in kaduna.

MetaPhysical:
If your zone is a blanket Christian/Christian or Muslim/Muslim, shut up! You have not respected diversity locally where it matters most, and have no earned authority to demand for it at where it matters less at national level.

shariff84:
force it as how?. Did he force you to vote him.

Truthisunique2:
if you are a minority of minority in a place you are already protected by the constitution to live where you want and practice your faith

Does it mean Hausas in the SS/SE should be given allocated elective slots because they are the major Muslims in these regions?

shariff84:
some state are just created to balance the equation,one local government in Niger state(mashegu) is bigger than whole bayalsa state.

Ojuntana:


How many of the Christian/Christian states have Christian canon law like the Muslim states have sharia laws?

Niwdog:
then why should a southern Muslim be given the president where Muslims are not upto 25percent

MetaPhysical:


This is a thread for discussing inclusion and diversity. We are not discussing state laws.

MetaPhysical:
If your zone is a blanket Christian/Christian or Muslim/Muslim, shut up! You have not respected diversity locally where it matters most, and have no earned authority to demand for it at where it matters less at national level.

Elimon:


What if there are no identifiable Muslims in my place... Eg Akwa Ibom state. So I shouldn't be concerned too... Useme

Ojuntana:


What is inclusion and diversity when you have states that elevate a certain religion above all others contrary to the spirit of the constitution?
Or is inclusion and diversity only relevant when discussing political posts?

The heads of the three branches of our national government are Muslims. Are we still discussing inclusion and diversity?

MetaPhysical:


So there are no mosques at all in Akwa Ibom?

Elimon:

Occupied by non indegene Muslims... Esp from the north... And strictly at northern quarters.
There are no indegenes who are Muslims.

Truthisunique2:
Yes

It's even foolish to be asking this especially Kwara which is almost extension of Yoruba state

Atiku 2023, say no to pastor husband muslim

shariff84:
no body born of a woman will say Muslim-muslim ticket is no no. Highest if you don't want it ,you can vote ur choice.
Like wise christian-christian ticket if north do want it,they vote against it.

MetaPhysical:


The Presidential candidate of APC is Muslim and from SW. If you look at the record of this candidate when he was governor it is evident he practiced inclusion and had a diverse culture in his administration. He also passed it down as a legacy in deployments throughout SW. So it doesn't matter if PDP is in power or APC, whether the governor is Christian or Muslim, the Southwest is always observing inclusion and we carry others along. Because we do not discriminate other regions and people find refuge first in our region.

Tinubu is a cultured advocate of inclusion. He has always done right by Christians and Muslims alike. What makes people think he will not do right and carry them along when he presides over the nation?

ArewaNorth:


What do you mean by extension of Yoruba state?
Do you want to tell me Yorubas are Christians?
Whatever the case may be, Muslim will definitely become Nigeria's President, so vote wisely

Ojuntana:

What I find funny is that it is you southern Muslims that are defending this obvious choice forced on Tinubu by Northern Muslim govs while the Northern elements who are the enforcers of the bigotry are keeping mute. Do you guys even realize the joke is actually on you guys? The northern Muslims obviously are telling you that you are not Muslim enough to represent them in the religious equation of Nigeria.
You do realize that southern Christians were asking Tinubu to pick a northern Christian for religious balance in his ticket. This implies that Southern Christians recognize Northern Christians as part of the Christian community in Nigeria and believe they have the capacity to represent Christian interests in Nigeria as a whole.
Meanwhile Northern Muslims are saying Tinubu being a Southern Muslim does not represent them. They need a northern Muslim to feel represented in government. May I then ask you southern Muslims if you are not the real victims of this particular move? Is it not then obvious that Buhari never represented you then in the eyes of his kinsmen. He only represented the Northern Muslims.
You should feel the most insulted by this move. It clearly shows Southern Muslims are second class Muslims in Nigeria if not, the emergence of Tinubu should have been enough to placate the Muslim interest in his ticket.
The issue is not with Tinubu really though the buck stops ultimately with him. The truth is Southern Christians have nothing to lose with the emergence of a Tinubu presidency. It is the northern Christians and Christians living in the North who come under more serious threats of persecution with the emergence of a Muslim Muslim ticket. These are those we Christians in the South are fighting for and telling Tinubu that they matter too. We want a Northern Christian VP. It is enough for us as a Southern Muslim President should be enough for Northern Muslims too. That is the basic line of nation building we are pushing!!

MetaPhysical:


Do you believe Tinubu will include Christians in his administration?

MetaPhysical:


I wish you had as much as a quarter of this page to write after Atiku stole Southern turn at primary, aided by Southerners who had beforehand met and agreed they will not conceed the primary to non-Southerner.

MetaPhysical:


Diversity is about inclusion, not population.

The reason governments do population count around the world is to determine how to scale social welfare programs by demography....births, age group, income, deaths and their changes up or down.

In Nigeria we use population wrongly. We intimidate, abuse and cheat with it. The govt never use it to budget programs for income brackets or to improve education funding by age brackets.

Im saying this so you will understand that population is a very important public policy just as diversity and inclusion is but the two are separate and should not be confused or used interchangeably. In fact they should not be mixed.

During a count people are asked to provide information about their faith. It is optional, not mandatory. A person can say I don't want to identify my faith. This is provisioned so to protect individuals from harrassment and attack. On the other hand, giving birth information and gender is required.


As I have said in earlier post, people have a right to thrive and live a dignified life. That right is promoted through inclusion.

If you review my earlier posts in this thread I mentioned in one of them that my original intent was to present this diversity map at the local level. That is, the grassroot level. I completed it as a draft and noticed its length would be impractical to post here so I recomposed it at State and Zonal level and brought here.

In review, I found even in NE zone where Muslim is overwhelmingly a majority there are Christians in their legislatures. Similarly in SS with overwhelmingly Christian faiths I found Muslims serving as legislators. SE is the only zone with zero face of Muslim.

SE has a very long lesson to learn. Muslims in that region need to thrive and have a sense of dignity about themselves. The governments of SE can do more and transform society.

I fear Christianization of society from a SE President more than I fear Islamization of Nigeria from a Muslim President from any zone.

excanny:


Nigeria is a majority Christian country. It’s counterpart to what politicians want us to believe.

patroit001:

In all honesty, I admire the composure in your writing and tone. How can I disagree with someone with such a literary prowess. But I think you digressed from my major point of disagreement. If I am right, you categorically stated that anyone who has same fate ticket at state level will be an hypocrite to criticize same fate ticket at federal level. At state level, they are more concern about geographical spread majorly senatorial district not religion. No state is as divided along religion line as Nigeria.