Tinubu Meets Northern Bishops, Defends Muslim-Muslim Ticket

All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Thursday met with Christian bishops and pastors drawn from Northern Nigeria and defended his preference for a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

The meeting with the bishops came against the background of the bussing in of what were reported as fake bishops at the unveiling of his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima in July.

The meeting on Thursday with the Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria came in the wake of mutterings of the Muslim-Muslim ticket being flown by the APC.

Speaking at the forum, Chairman of Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria, Archbishop John Praise, said, “We are not committed to endorsing anybody, but you should ask your conscience and from what you have heard and from the explanation, he (Tinubu) had given to us to make your own judgement of who will better rule and handle the country.”

Tinubu, defending the Muslim-Muslim ticket said that his choice of Shettima was not a threat to the Christian community.

Rather, he told the bishops that the Muslim-Muslim ticket was based on competence and not religious considerations, adding that only competence can resolve the political and socio-economic challenges bedevilling the nation.

The APC presidential candidate he has always been a friend of the Christian community and he should be considered based on his track records, plans and agenda for developing Nigeria.

“How will Nigeria develop? How do we banish hunger? How do we improve the insecurity and how do we eliminate killing one another, shedding of blood of innocent citizens, that is what we must take to the office and not our religion.

“My intention is clear, not religiosity. My intention is to develop this country, to bring prosperity to our country and I have better qualification, better track records, better exposure, better vision than any of my mates.

“When the shortlisted names came, I looked at the characters on the list, their background and everything and here is somebody (Kassim Shettima) who is so brilliant, so committed, who, during the crisis in Borno protected Christians,” Tinubu told the Bishops in his defence of the Muslim-Muslim ticket.

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