Popular and renowned Nigerian activist, Aisha Yesufu has responded to the viral video of Mahdi Shehu, calling it vile and disgusting.
Mahdi Shehu who is a Kastina activist, went to address Northern Christians and cautioned them never to vote for a candidate of Southern Extraction, most especially Peter Obi.
According to Shehu, northern Christians have no business voting for a southerner as the southerners don’t care about the north.
Shehu made claims that southern candidates don’t care about any Northern Christian. That they see anybody from the north as a northern and won’t hesitate to lynch them when they are breakdown of law and order.
He claimed that the agenda of Peter Obi is only for his tribe hence a vote for Peter obi is a vote for Biafra and the decimation of the north.
Aisha Yesufu in her own video, made a rebuttal and called the statements of Mahdi as shameful, distasteful and disgusting.
She tasked Northern Christians to looked at themselves and ask what they have benefitted from voting for northerners all this while.
According to her, Deborah Samuel, a northern Christian was murdered in Sokoto by fellow northerners. No Southerner was involved in her death.
“Where was Mahdi when Deborah was killed, did he condemn the act? Did he stand for Deborah?
Aisha expressed her disappointment that considering the insecurity and poverty faced by most people in the country, Shehu still had the audacity to play the ethno-religious card in the upcoming elections.
Where was Mahdi when people in the north were being killed in their homes, farms and place of worship. Was any southerner responsible for their demise?
She questioned Northern Christians to look at how the APC does not value them by selecting a muslim-muslim ticket in a diverse country like Nigeria.
When it was time to choose the vice-presidential ticket, many statements were flying around that the north cannot vote for a northern Christian, even as vice-president.
Now when they need your thumbprints, they remember that you are northern.
Aisha stated that the elites of the north do not care about northern Christians. She urged Northern Christians to disregard the statements of Mahdi Shehu and not to take the 2023 general elections as business as usual.