The Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria (SCSN) has sparked a new controversy regarding the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 election.
The organization claims that this ticket, which was previously used by President Bola Tinubu in the last general election, has not brought any positive changes to the lives of Nigerians.
Sheikh AbdurRasheed Hadiyyatullah, the President of SCSN, made this statement during a National Conference in Abuja.
Hadiyyatullah explained that many Nigerians supported the same faith ticket because they hoped it would bring development to the country. However, he pointed out that no progress has been made in the past seven months.
He said, “The Nigeria of today is too bad. What we are buying at N200 before is N2000 now. We have scarcity of Naira and unemployment is escalating. Nigerians are not enjoying the new government at all. I don’t want to go personal but the Sharia Council helped the Muslim-Muslim ticket to be successful. We campaigned and supported this government until it came to power, but we are suffering.
“Some of the Ministers are siphoning and looting the treasury. I don’t want to mention any name but we have all seen and read it. Nigerians have been suffering since the last seven months when this government came to power.
“We are not making any progress. The reason for the Muslim-Muslim ticket was to progress, triumph, succeed and to have a good government but we didn’t have anything.”
Ministers that are unwilling to work for the sake of the country should retire and be replaced with honest Nigerians, according to the priest.
Hadiyyatullah said, “See how Nigerians are suffering. No money. No progress. We have not enjoyed anything since seven months of this government. We are sympathetic with this government but the way forward is for some of these Ministers to go home and rest and we will find other people who will be honest with themselves and the country, those who are there to work not to loot the country.”
It is worth noting that Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling APC, faced criticism for choosing a Muslim running mate, Kashim Shettima, instead of a Christian candidate. Despite this controversy, Tinubu emerged victorious in the election, defeating his rivals Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP).
