More than 10, 000 Nigerians from across the 19 northern States, on Friday, have arrived Abuja to protest.
They converged in Abuja, to protest
Fair and leggy Nollywood actress, Onyinye Okafor has one major regret in life, although it has transformed into a huge blessing for her in disguise.
The divorced mother of four in an recent interview said, “Looking back, I don’t have any regrets because everything that God does is beautiful. The only regret I’d have had would have been wrong marriage but it still helped me to be who I am today. So, I don’t have even one regret. I am a proud mother of four lovely boys. I have also had lots of challenges in Nollywood. Some producers will tell you that if you don’t sleep with them, you won’t amount to anything in the industry. I was asked to have sex with them in exchange for movie scripts many times and I did not do it! It is not something you come to say somebody did this or that to you.”
Onyii as she is fondly called by close friends also lambasted her colleagues who bring their private issues to the public space, especially via social media.
She said: “He or she who feel that washing his/her dirty linen outside is best, should continue. For me, Onyi Okafor, it’s not my thing. I let you see what I want you to see. You cannot know too much about me because I’m not comfortable with that.
It is crazy and it’s not a good idea. I don’t know why people do such stupid and crazy thing. It’s not my thing. When I see things like that, I just pass like I don’t want to see it.
Except for death threat, every other thing should be about you. Like what you see on my page is me, I am the public person. Nothing more, nothing less.
Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Daily Post reports.
The protesters, under the aegis of All Christians Community of Northern Nigeria, marched to the Presidential Villa to submit a protest letter to the Federal Government over the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by the APC.
Leader of the group, Moses Adams said these are indeed not the best times for Christians in the APC and Nigeria in general.
He said the sensibilities of Christians have been “insulted by the ambition of a select few that have elected to throw caution to the wind.”
He noted that Nigeria is a multi-ethnic and multi-religious State, with Islam and Christianity as the two major religions which have defined the country’s way of life since independence, adding that successive governments have respected the country’s multi-religious nature, especially during elections, to create a balance in the leadership of the nation.
Mr. Adams said the decision of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to disregard the Christian community in the choice of its vice presidential candidate for the 2023 presidential election was, therefore, “unacceptable and a recipe for creating sharp divides between the Muslims and the Christians in the country.”
He pointed out that since the return to democracy in 1999 in Nigeria, the tradition has been a Muslim-Christian or Christian-Muslim pairing by all political parties, which had to a large extent, ensured religious harmony in the country.
While describing the APC Muslim-Muslim ticket as the “height of discrimination against Christians”, he mentioned that other political parties reflected religious balance in the composition of their presidential team.
The Christian group wondered why the APC elected to toe this path of dishonour that, in its considered opinion, “is deliberate to relegate the Christians in Nigeria into oblivion, which is not in the best interest of the country in this critical period of our existence.”
It said Northern Christians were displeased and angered by APC’s insensitivity, which goes to show that Christians are not relevant in the scheme of things in the country.
The group stressed that the move by the APC was intended to cause a crisis of unimaginable proportion along ethno-religious lines.
It appealed to the President to intervene in reversing the “ignoble move” by the party’s Presidential Candidate.
“We demand that you invite the Presidential candidate of the party to quickly retrace his steps immediately,” the group stressed.
