The All Progressives Congress (APC) will unveil the vice presidential candidate Ibrahim Shettima by 1.00pm at Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja.
Following the release of the statement, news made the round that aggrieved party members and religious bodies who were against the Muslim-Muslim ticket are planning to storm the venue in protest.
Reacting to protests by some party members, the Director General of Asiwaju Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organisation, Adebayo Shittu, has claimed that Muslims make up 65% of the southwestern part of Nigeria.
He made this assertion in an interview on AIT, during the Focus Nigeria show, on Tuesday.
Shittu was justifying the decision of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, to pick a fellow Muslim, Kashim Shettima, as his running mate.
Tinubu, who is a southern Muslim, had incurred the wrath of the Christian Association of Nigerian, some party.
Tinubu, who is a southern Muslim, had incurred the wrath of the Christian Association of Nigerian, some party members and political stakeholders when he announced Shettima as his running mate.
Justifying his principal’s choice, Shittu maintained that southwestern Nigerians were predominantly Muslims.
“In the South-West of Nigeria, the Muslims constitute an average of 65%,” of the population, the lawyer asserted. When asked if his claim was based on fact or projection, he said, “I don’t tell lies. You can investigate. Do your research.”