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Muslim-Muslim Ticket: “No Agenda To Islamise Nigeria” – Tinubu Tells CAN

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Nov 17, 2022.

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The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general election, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu said there is no plan to Islamise Nigeria.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Asiwaju Tinubu clearly stated that he has no agenda to Islamise Nigeria owing to the rumours after the selection of his Vice.

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Asiwaju Tinubu who spoke during an interactive session with the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Abuja, said the choice of a Northern running mate is for the good of the country.

He said people have reacted harshly to his choice of former Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima as Vice Presidential running mate.

He added that some of his friends criticising him had lobbied for the position but he rejected them.

“People have reacted harshly to my selection. They are because they are my friends, they lobbied me and wanted to be my running mate but I bluntly rejected them.”

“The rumour that this is some plot to suppress the Christian community is untrue and unfortunate. I don’t have that kind of agenda,” Asiwaju Tinubu said.

The former Lagos State Governor maintained that the vice president cannot perform the function of a president unless delegated.

“The bucks stop on my table, not on the vice- president’s table unless so delegated. He cannot even forgive convicted inmates if I don’t delegate the power to him.”

Asiwaju Tinubu added that his administration cannot suppress the Christian community if he becomes president.

‘’I can no more suppress the Christians of this nation than I can suppress the Christians in my own household, my very family. I dare not contest the presidential position in my house because I will lose, they are all Christians.”

“If I did not Islamise my family, I cannot Islamise Nigeria. It is awful to hear such allegations,” he said.

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu flanked by Senator Oluremi Tinubu; running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima; Speaker of the House of Representatives; Femi Gbajabiamila; Deputy Senate Leader Senator Boroffice Ajayi, Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, and Minister of Special Duties, Senator George Akume

Responding to the allegation of the opposition that he is using religion to divide the country, the presidential candidate said “religions will not help us and it won’t do any good to us” because Nigeria “cannot make progress if we continue to follow that path in the country.”

APC’s Asiwaju Tinubu, described as the leading presidential candidate said the question of the same faith ticket is “irrelevant” because he chose Shettima for a progressive government.

He agreed to the idea of a Christian running mate which he said is an easy way, but “rarely the right one.”

“Why the same faith ticket? These are irrelevant to the well-being of our country. I did not choose him so that we could form the same faith ticket. I chose him because I want a progressive government and people-based ideology ticket.”

“I chose him thinking of who will best help me govern than who will best help me worship. Picking a Christian running mate would have been politically easier but that is not my way. The easy way is rarely the right one.”

He described the “selection of a running mate is at once a very momentous yet very intimate decision.’’

In company of his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu; the APC standard bearer appealed to the Christian leaders to support his mission to become President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.