2023: Tinubu’s opponents should have supported a Christian to win APC ticket, says Oshiomole – Nexus News
Former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomole has blamed some Christians chieftains of leading the opposition against ex-Lagos governor, and the party’s flag bearer, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the build-up to the 2023 election.
Oshiomole informed newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, August 4, 2022, that the criticisms against the party’s Muslim-Muslim ticket was disheartening, adding that the crisis facing the country are bigger than disagreements over religion.
The Edo ex-governor depicted the position of critics to the emergence of Senator Kaskim Shettima as Tiubu’s running mate as blackmail.
Oshiomole said; “Those leading the campaign in the APC family – if they were such believers in Christianity – had the opportunity to canvass for votes for one of the Christian candidates.
“But they were on record as having led the campaign on the side of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, knowing very well that he is a Muslim,” he said.
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The former labor leader said that Nigerian challenges are way beyond religion.
“The issues we have to spend time discussing is what will any of the presidential candidates do differently, not what will a Christian or Muslim do,” he said.
Oshiomole also berated reports that Christians were being persecuted, stating that there was no evidence of such.
“I don’t think they bothered to show the evidence and yet we have not just a Christian Vice-President, we have a pastor, a senior advocate”, he emphasized.
