By Ovie Okpare
The first Military Administrator of Abia State, Air Vice Marshal, Frank Ajobena (rtd), has resigned his membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ajobena, who is a National Caucus member of the party, said he was quitting the party owing to the choice of a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the 2023 general elections by the Presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Bola Tinubu.
Ajobena is a chieftain of the APC from Okpe Kingdom in Delta State.
In a statement on Tuesday, the former military governor berated the presidential candidate of the APC for picking a Muslim as his running mate.
Tinubu had on Sunday during a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina State, announced Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate.
He described Tinubu’s choice of a Muslim-Muslim ticket as a “smacks of arrogance” against Christians who are members of the party.
The statement. “The decision of the APC Presidential Candidate Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu to run for President on a Muslim-Muslim ticket is the highest level of insensitivity to the feelings of persons of the Christian faith in Nigeria.
“It smacks of arrogance and a total disrespect of us the Christian members of the APC. It portrays us as a people who can easily be bought over with money.
“In what capacity will I be serving on his campaign train? As a slave? A man must stand for something, or he will fall for anything. I quit the APC.”
