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Religionization of Nigerian Politics and The Threats of Disunity

As I always said, common citizens have no business in the affairs of the political parties. Except you are part of the membership and involved in their decision process, no one should crucify political parties using religion or ethnic blackmail. It is not only ridiculous and foolish, it is extremely dangerous. A political party is NOT an assembly formed by one ethnic, tribal or religion group. A political party may have dominance in one particular region but members of political parties are present in all the geopolitical zones. Why should the mutual decision of such an all-inclusive union be a cause of agitations and brouhaha? How would any party choose to commit a political suicide if it is certain that such decisions would cause its defeats at the polls? And if in case it does, whose headache? Whichever way the decision of the party swings in terms of its perceived balance or bias, the constant goal remains the same: winning the election. Therefore, except where they are mono-ethn