Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has revealed that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has agreed to pick a Muslim as his running mate and the announcement will take place any moment from now.
Ganduje made this disclosure while speaking on Friday during a gathering of about 100 clerics at the Kano state government house as part of activities to mark Eid-El Kabir.
He said, ‘We have advised him [Tinubu] to pick a Muslim deputy, and he has agreed.
‘A Muslim-Muslim ticket is a reality. It’s not something new in Nigeria.’
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Ganduje also asked the clerics to pray for Tinubu to emerge as Nigeria’s next president in 2023.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that Tinubu had, in June this year, emerged as the APC’s presidential flag bearer.
The former Lagos State governor scored 1,271 votes to defeat his closest contenders, Rotimi Amaechi, who pulled 316 votes and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who scored 235 votes.
Meanwhile, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Festus Keyamo, has asserted that electing Bola Tinubu in 2023 will correct what he described as ‘the June 12, 1993 election anomaly’.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that the June 12 1993 presidential election was reportedly won by the late philanthropist, Chief M.K.O Abiola. However, the election was annulled by the military junta led by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd), for yet to be fully clarified reasons.
Going down memory lane yesterday, Keyamo in a series of tweets on his Twitter handle, pointed out that with those currently vying to succeed the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), only the former Lagos State governor was at the forefront of the battle for the June 12 mandate.
The minister alleged that the former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, was among those who first abandoned the June 12 struggle.