Kukah Reacts As Tinubu Picks Shettima As Running Mate

The Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Fr Matthew Kukah, has reacted after the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu picked Kashim Shettima as his working mate.

Tinubu had on Sunday confirmed the prefer of the ragged Governor of Borno as his working mate for the length of an interview with journalists after a closed-door assembly with President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina Speak.

Kumornews understands that the announcement became once obtained with a barrage of reactions as Tinubu selected to head with a Muslim-Muslim tag no matter several admonitions by concerned bodies to attach in thoughts a Muslim-Christian tag.

Earlier than the advance, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) had vehemently rejected the premise of a single-faith-tag, urging political parties to focal level more on competence than sentiment.

Tinubu, who ended with a Muslim-Muslim tag has, however, defended his reasons for not picking a Christian as his working mate.

Talking on the advance in an interview with The Punch, Kukah acknowledged that Tinubu selected Shettima because he thinks the lawmaker will give him a fairly chance in the 2023 presidential election.

Kukah asserted that he isn’t disquieted over the prefer of the ragged Borno Governor as the vice presidential candidate of the ruling party, along with that Tinubu became once free to decide whoever he wanted.

He acknowledged that it became once up to Nigerians to favor in the occasion that they need a Muslim-Muslim President and Vice-President or not.

He mentioned, “Right here’s what you name crew selection and everybody will favor searching on what they mediate will give them a fairly chance. So americans will possess responsibility for the selections they hang made. For me, it is not one thing to lose sleep over.

“If americans the truth is feel unhappy with the more or much less selections which hang been made, that’s why we’re democrats, you might perchance well well’t power it. We outsiders can not power a prefer of any candidate. It’s a ways now left for you to scrutinize on the selections which hang been made. And there’s not any such thing as a command that every Christians will vote for Christians and all Muslims will vote for Muslims.”