2027 Presidency: “If APC Does Not Have Hausa, Fulani Or Kanuri Muslim On Ticket, It Will Be Huge Hurdle” – Tinubu’s Minister, Musawa

By Adesina Soyooye

Nigeria’s Minister of Art, Culture and Tourism, Hannatu Musawa, has weighed in on her Party’s Muslim-Muslim Presidential Ticket as election year, 2027 approaches.

In 2023, her Party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. had fielded a Muslim-Muslim Ticket, and inspite of the controversy that trailed it, then- candidates Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima won the election.

As 2027 approaches, the controversy has reared its head again. Speculations have been rife over if APC would still field a Muslim-Muslim Ticket. Many have suggested that the President picks a Northern Christian as his running mate in place of Shettima. Some names, including the Roman Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dogara Yakubu and former Secretary to the Federal Government, Boss Mustapha have been floated. But Minister Musawa thinks that there will be consequences if the Muslim-Muslim ticket is jettisoned.

Speaking in an interview with Seun Okinbaloye on his Mic Podcast, she said it will be a huge hurdle for the Party to cross if it goes into the Presidential race in 2027 without a Muslim of Hausa, Fulani or Kanuri stock. She thinks doing that would be like toying with the Presidential election.

Her words: “I think if we toy with changing what we have now, it is a problem. If there is no Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri Muslim on that ticket, it just creates…it is a hurdle. And that is the reality of the way the people think, and that is what I am telling you.”