As the choice of a former governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima, as running mate to the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, continues to throw up controversy, Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has appealed to Nigerians to ignore the issue of religion but vote for a competent candidate that will deliver results.
In a statement yesterday by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde, Akeredolu asserted that a Muslim-Muslim ticket has nothing to do with performance.
He expressed confidence that the Tinubu/Shettima ticket would win election and rescue the nation.
‘Let’s vote for someone that can do something. The work stops at the table of the president. It is the president that you are voting for. He decides what happens. Whether it’s a Muslim/Muslim or Christian/Christian, it should not matter to us in the South because we fought for this.
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He went on to add; ‘I have no doubt that given the opportunity, from what he has done in Lagos, Asiwaju Tinubu will turn things around for the better,’ the governor said.
Religion should not divide us -Olawepo-Hashim
A former presidential aspirant and chieftain of the party, Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has counselled opinion moulders not to allow religion to further divide the “already divided” country.
In a statement by his media office in Abuja, yesterday, Olawepo-Hashim explained that the political aspiration of anybody is not worth the disruption of the unity and peace of Nigeria.
‘While we all have the right to express ourselves, we should avoid incendiary comments that can further pose huge challenge to our national integration objectives.
‘Let us quietly make our decisions and express such decisions with our votes,’ he said.
He said the political parties that are insensitive to national concerns and take some segments of the population for granted must be ready to be punished by the electorate at the polls.