APC Chieftain fights against Muslim Senate President for 10th National Assembly, gives reason

The race for who becomes the next Senate President has come with a lot of clashes within the All Progressives Congress (APC).

It has also become religious as members of the Christian community within the party have vowed to stop any attempt by the party to appoint a Muslim as Senate President.

This follows the emergence of Bola Tinubu and Kassim Shettima as president and vice president-elect - both men are Muslims.

Speaking on the subject, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman said that any Muslim aspiring to be the Senate president of the 10th National Assembly does not respect the constitution and the party.

The Cable reports that Lukman affirmed that because the president-elect and the vice-president-elect are both of Muslim religion, the Senate president should be a Christian.

As the vice-chairman of the ruling party in the northwest region, Lukman said any move by the party to enforce a Muslim senate president on the people will be insensitive and would only signal a plan to promote the dominance of Muslims in the federal government.

His words: “Any Muslim aspiring for the position of Senate President has no respect for both the constitutions of the federal republic of Nigeria and the APC. “This is because Chapter II, Section 14(3) of the Nigerian constitution clearly outlined that ‘the composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few states or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that government or in any of its agencies."