Festus Keyamo, spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) presidential campaign council, says Nigerians are “hungry” and they are
not bothered about the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket.
Keyamo spoke on Sunday during an interview on Channels
Television.
Over the past few months, varied reactions have trailed the
decision of the APC and Bola Tinubu, the party’s flagbearer who is a Muslim, to
pick a Muslim politician – Kashim Shettima — as a running mate.
Many Nigerians, including the Christian Association of
Nigeria (CAN) and Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) have condemned the
APC Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket.
Speaking on the opposition to the ticket, the minister said
CAN and PFN are not members of the APC and that they should not criticise the
party, publicly.
Asked to discuss the APC’s campaign issues for the 2023
elections, Keyamo said the party will highlight the performances of Tinubu
during his administration as Lagos governor.
The minister said the party will inform Nigerians how Tinubu
will improve the country based on how his track record on the management of
Lagos
“These are the kind
of questions we want to see, the issues will want to remain on not
Muslim-Muslim ticket. We have issues upon issues we want to talk about,” he
said.
“Nigerians are hungry, they want to see how that hunger will
be addressed, not how their Christian or Muslim faiths will be addressed.
“They want to see our policies on agriculture and what
Asiwaju has done before as governor of Lagos state, how he improved Lagos and
how he will bring that kind of dexterity to Nigeria as a whole.
“That is what they want to see. How do we want to run the
country? What do we want to tell Nigerians?
“They are two crucial
things we want to tell Nigerians. One, the person of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
and what he has done before in the territory that is set to be the microcosm of
Nigeria.
“There is no where within the Federal Republic of Nigeria
that has the character and the shape of the entire country as much as Lagos.
“Lagos is a melting pot for the entire tribe, tongues and
faiths in Nigeria. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu either as governor first till 2007 and
as leader of the party since 2007 till now, he has managed all the multi-facet
problem in Lagos state either tribe, religion, ethnicity in such a way that
there have been peace in Lagos state. The peace that we take for guaranteed.”
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