Facts on how the All Progressives Congress, APC reportedly
hired Christian clergymen and women to participate in the unveiling of the
party’s vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima have emerged.
Recall that Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate,
unveiled the former Borno State governor as his running mate on Wednesday in
Abuja.
Footages of bishops dressed in cassocks who attended the
event have flooded the social media amid controversy surrounding the same faith
ticket.
The ruling party is currently receiving backlashes from Nigerians for reportedly hiring fake bishops in a bid to claim support of the Christian community in the presidential race.
One of the ‘bishops’ who spoke with Peoples Gazette, Joseph
Odaudu alleged that they were hired from a motor park.
According to him, the APC members promised to pay them
N100,000 each.
He, however, lamented that he only got N40,000 instead of
the promised N100,000
“They came to meet us at the car park behind Eagle Square
and they promised to give me N100,000. They bought food for us and took us to
another place where they gave us clothes to dress like Christian leaders and
reverend fathers,” Mr Odaudu told The Gazette.
“But after we finished, they only gave me N40,000 and
another person said they got only N30,000. I don’t know why they changed our
agreement because they said they had N100,000 for us.
“I am a Christian and I am supporting Tinubu but I hate when
people lie and fail to deliver on their promises,” he added.
However, the Tinubu Campaign Organisation, TCO, had debunked
the reports of fake bishops, saying they are clerics without big names.
TCO, in a statement by its Director of Media and Communication,
Mr. Bayo Onanuga declared that the bishops were not hired.
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