2023: Islamic group tackles Dogara for warning Christians not to waste their votes

On Wednesday, the Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara-related words in which he criticised the notion of a Muslim-Muslim ticket in the next 2023 presidential election drew a response from the Chairman of the Bauchi State Chapter of the Muslim Rights Concern, or MURIC.

Recall that last week Dogara urged Nigerian Christians not to waste their votes on the APC in the next elections.

The All Progressives Congress, the current government, and its decision to run a presidential and vice presidential ticket with the same religion, according to Dogara, is incompatible with the country’s effort to establish its nation.

However, Dogara was urged to uphold the spirit of his name and “Dogara ga Allah,” which translates to ‘leave all to God,’ in a statement issued on Wednesday by the chairman of the Bauchi Chapter of MURIC, Barrister Idrees Safiyanu Gambo.

The statement read in part, “Although I understand the need to hide under the guise of ‘nation building’ by Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, in driving home, the message of his disappointment and his being snubbed by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the choice of his running mate, but what I cannot still comprehend was the choice of a religious platform to send such a political message.

“I would like to call on Hon. Dogara to follow the spirit of his name and ‘Dogara ga Allah’ (i.e. leave everything to God), as it is clear that he is doing more harm than good to his hard-earned political image and the reputation he cultivated in the last sixteen years, especially in Bauchi State where despite the religious differences, he’s highly revered as one of the most respected leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“To us in MURIC, his political party is never an issue, but the future has a way of rewriting the result of the past.”