{"id":235251,"date":"2025-09-01T07:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T07:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/apcs-muslim-muslim-ticket-strategy-to-win-election-not-religious-move-el-rufai\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T07:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T07:07:02","slug":"apcs-muslim-muslim-ticket-strategy-to-win-election-not-religious-move-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/apcs-muslim-muslim-ticket-strategy-to-win-election-not-religious-move-el-rufai\/","title":{"rendered":"APC\u2019s Muslim-Muslim Ticket Strategy To Win Election, Not Religious Move \u2013 El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has stated that his decision to support the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election was a political move.<\/h2>\n

Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television, he asserted that it was not a move motivated by religion, rather a deliberate plan to secure electoral victory.<\/p>\n

The former Kaduna governor argued that fears over religious exclusion were unfounded, citing his experience in Kaduna, where he also ran on a Muslim-Muslim ticket.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a political strategy; it was a strategy to win the election; it was not a religious strategy. When you are contesting an election, you look at every variable, every index, every criterion that will help you win. It has nothing to do with religion.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo long as we continue to speculate on these issues, we will not solve them. We have done a Muslim-Muslim ticket now. Tell me in what way Christians are now short-changed; nothing. No leader that wants to succeed will limit his choice of appointees to a particular religion or ethnicity.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to succeed, you have to diversify. Now we have cured the fear and the love for the Muslim-Muslim ticket. It has been done, buried, and gone. I did a Muslim-Muslim ticket in Kaduna; I want to know which Christian in Kaduna was short-changed because of it,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n

The post APC’s Muslim-Muslim Ticket Strategy To Win Election, Not Religious Move – El-Rufai appeared first on Naija News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has stated that his decision to support the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election was a political move. Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television, he asserted that it was not a move motivated by religion, rather a deliberate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":235252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[287,1867,1356],"class_list":["post-235251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-muslim-muslim-ticket","tag-nasir-el-rufai"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/El-rufai1-1000x600.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}