LAGOS – Abdullahi Sule, Governor of Nasarawa State, has said he could not say if
those who appeared as clerics at the official presentation of former Governor of
Borno State, Kashim Shettima as the running mate of the presidential flagbearer of
the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, are truly Catholic
priests.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the event which held at the Shehu Yar’adua
center in Abuja saw supposed representatives of the Catholic Church.
Critics of Tinubu say the bishops were hired by the former Lagos State governor’s
campaign team to give Christian voters a false impression that his decision to pick
a fellow Muslim despite strong objections and national security implications was
accepted by the Christian community.
“Well, if they are hired, we didn’t see that,” Sule said while speaking in an
interview earlier this week then went on to comment that “Maybe the same people
who are on the streets today too were hired (referring to anti Muslim-Muslim ticket
campaigners). You know, it’s the same thing. Can you compare the calibre of
people who are on the street to the calibre of people who have just entered that
event to be there?”
