Nigeria’s Presidential Election: The Christian-Muslim Divide Muhammad Rislan risland6@gmail.com The above was the title of an article written by Robert Ruby and Timothy Samuel Shah for the Pew Research Centre ’s Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life on March 21, 2007. The content of the article still reverberates to date. Barely anything has changed. Never has a campaign exposed our fragility like the just concluded presidential campaign, which constantly revolves not around ideologies but the religious affiliations of the front-line contenders. This serves as a reminder of the sharp Christian-Muslim divide in Africa’s most populous country. The fact that we have a largely Christian south and predominately Muslim north does not change or help the challenges the average Nigerian faces. Here's why the warped logic of voting the President from your religious bloc seemed confusing to me: The recent ruling by the Apex Court overturning the unilateral decision of one man’s effort to ...