Dep Speaker Denies Converting Any Legislator To Islam

Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed reports,

Hon. Ahmed Wase, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, has said that no lawmaker has been converted to Islam since his emergence and that of Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House.

Wase made this known when a group, Asiwaju’s Pact with Citizens Campaign 2023 (APCC2023) paid a courtesy visit to his Office on Friday in Abuja.

Our Correspondent, Mr. Mohammed Oluwatimileyin you, adds that both Gbajabiamila and Wase are Muslims.

He added that politics was about development, which “has to do with what you can do and offer, but not about sentiment, which does not work.”

He claimed that APC was on a good course with the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the presidential flag-bearer of the party.

“A journalist, some days ago when myself and my colleagues went to congratulate the vice president (Insha Allah in 2023), asked me whether we have any issues regarding Muslim-Muslim ticket and my answer was that we have the same here in the House.

“The Speaker and I are Muslims and I do not know how many of our members have been converted so far to other religions.

“Our priority is about giving the people the dividends of democracy.

“I am from Plateau State, I know we have very good percentage of Muslims there, but who is going to give us peace should be our concern not who is going to divide us.”

He explained that the National Assembly had had both Senate President and Deputy Senate President as Christians for eight years without rancour.

The House of Representatives deputy speaker gave that some of the emotions and sentiment being expressed were basically from those who wanted to cheaply gain access to power causing confusion within the society.

He said that what should be paramount in the minds of the people should be competency, efficiency, and who could deliver and give the country the best.

He said that there was no doubt that the choice of Tinubu “is from God’’, who had given out his best and had been in the political terrain for years.

Wase stressed that Tinubu had developed people, adding that there was no segment of the society that someone he had assisted would not be found.

He argued that he had not seen any candidate in any political parties that could match Tinubu’s feats, adding that the array of ministers in this administration were a testimony.

He said that no politician in the country today could match Tinubu’s contributions and what he had done, adding that the APC had a lot to exhibit from Tinubu’s candidacy.

Meanwhile, the National Coordinator, APCC2023, Rev. Dominic Alancha, maintained that the platform was all inclusive which sought to rally Nigerians towards the peace and development of the nation.

He vowed that main issues across all sectors of the economy would be addressed by the Tinubu’s presidency, adding that the issue of unemployment, insecurity, education, among others would be resolved.

The group also made Wase the Chairman, National Advisory Council, saying that it believed that the mission and vision would be recorded properly with the coming in of the deputy speaker.