By Wale Odunsi President Muhammadu Buhari has denied that he got advice against the Bola Tinubu-Kashim Shettima ticket. The fo...
By Wale Odunsi
President Muhammadu Buhari has denied that he got advice
against the Bola Tinubu-Kashim Shettima ticket.
The former Lagos governor announced the ex-Borno governor and
Senator as his running mate after visiting Buhari in Daura, Katsina state.
On Friday, Peoples Gazette reported that the Department of
State Service (DSS) warned about the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All
Progressives Congress (APC).
But the President through spokesman Garba Shehu debunked the
information in a statement.
The media aide advised Nigerians to “ignore a laughably
puerile report by an apparently pirate online newspaper seeking to sow division
and chaos on the choice of Governor Kashim Shettima as the Running Mate of our
Party’s Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu”.
It was reported that senior security agents fear that the
Tinubu-Shettima ticket may lead to renewed sectarian crisis that could
destabilise Nigeria.
The DSS document was said to have been forwarded to the
President through the National Security Adviser, NSA, Babagana Monguno.
It cautioned Tinubu to consider the security implications of
his selection before making it public.
“Our understanding is that the alliance will destabilise
Nigeria and embolden attacks on Christian citizens from their fellow Muslim
citizens.
“The distrust Christians are likely to harbour against a
presidency occupied by two Muslims won’t make our work easy at national
security level”, an intelligence operative was quoted saying.
The official added that Buhari was not involved in the talks
that led to Tinubu’s announcement of Shettima.
The intelligence report was reportedly commissioned after
Tinubu commenced consultations on a Muslim running mate after he emerged as the
APC presidential flagbearer early June.
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