A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has reacted to recent comments by a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, over the party’s Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket describing the former Government scribe as a ‘devil’.
Oshiomhole submitted that the time has come for Nigerians to differentiate between a Christian by mouth and a devil by heart.
He marveled why Lawal, who was involved in a grass-cutting scandal, could oppose APC’s Muslim-Muslim ticket.
He made this assertion when he appeared on Arise TV on Wednesday.
Oshiomhole maintained that the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu was a better Christian.
He pointed out that Tinubu has been married to a Christian for almost 40 years with children practicing both Christian and Muslim faith.
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According to Oshiomhole: ‘Evil people who are on record are being prosecuted for misappropriating money that a Muslim president appropriated in favour of Christian children that were displaced and were converted to grass-cutter, have become the new voice of Christianity.
‘We must make a distinction between Christian by mouth and devil by heart who want to see Nigeria engulfed in a war nobody can win.
‘Who is a better Christian in the Nigerian contest? Somebody like Asiwaju who has a Christian wife of about 40 years with no record of divorce, with four or five children; some are Christians and others Muslim.
‘That is an example of what a nation should be.’
Lawal had condemned Tinubu’s decision to pick Kashim Shettima as his running mate.
The former SGF said APC’s Muslim-Muslim ticket was a plot to Islamize the country.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had prosecuted Lawal along with his younger brother, Hamidu David Lawal over fraud involving grass-cutting.
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