Former Governor Rashidi Ladoja of Oyo says there is nothing wrong with choosing the Muslim-Muslim ticket if it will bring the desired growth and development to Nigeria.

Mr Ladoja asserted this while speaking with journalists on Saturday in his Bodija residence in Ibadan.

“I don’t see anything wrong with a Muslim-Muslim ticket because I don’t intervene in religious matters. Muslims and Christians are from the same father; Abraham is known as Ibrahim in Islam,” he said.

Mr Ladoja accused politicians of fuelling crises, adding that  religion would not have been an issue if not for the crisis and killings in some parts of the country.

“It is only politicians that usually cause crisis with religion. They are the causes of all these things, but God will intervene.

“But, when gunmen started attacking churches and kidnapping clerics in Christendom, people started doubting their fellow brothers who belong to another religion,” the former governor said.

He said many factors were involved in electing a president, adding that it required more prayers.

The former governor said that his prayers, including that of other Nigerians, were not a repeat of what happened to the late M.K.O Abiola in 1993.

“There are many factors involved in electing the president. Whoever wants to be president and those working for him have to work very hard.

“In fact, they will need more prayers as they are consulting. With all these efforts, God has the final say on who becomes the president.

“Chief M.K.O Abiola, a Muslim was elected along with his Muslim vice, Alhaji Babagana Kingibe. We only pray that if Tinubu wins, it won’t turn into the same scenario of late Abiola,” he said.

Mr Ladoja decried the recent attack on the advance party of President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina and Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja.

He said that the government needs to strengthen the nation’s security architecture to end these heinous killings across the country.

(NAN)