Muslim-Muslim Ticket: Fashola Supports Tinubu – Babatunde Fashola, Nigeria’s Minister of Works and Housing has consented his support for his ex-principal’s choice of presidential running mate in view of the 2023 polls.
In an interview aired on Channels Television yesterday, Mr Fashola endorsed the choice of Kashim Shettima as running mate to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu. DAILY NIGERIAN reports.
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Speaking yesterday, Mr Fashola said religion should be put aside for competence when Nigerians elect their next set of leaders in 2023. Information Guide Nigeria
“In my own opinion, Asiwaju is the best person to drive that vehicle because I have worked with him at close quarters and I know his capacity. I know his tenacity. And I think sometimes that we need to test some hypothesis and the opportunity to test this hypothesis is there,” Mr Fashola, who served as Mr Tinubu’s chief of staff when the latter was governor, said.
“My position about religion has been made known on different platforms. I think religion should leave the public space and go back to where it belongs – to the homes and the religious centres”. jamb results
He argued that winning elections is about numbers and some decisions may appear irrational. He said Mr Tinubu made his calculations based on what he thinks will favour him in the coming poll.
“Sometimes we should stop being afraid of fear itself. If this is something that is real, the votes will show eventually. Who cares really? We both drank water here and we didn’t ask who made the water. People want good schools, good healthcare. People want infrastructure. They want to be secured.
“If you go in both sides, there have been a Christian VP under a Muslim President. Sadly people were killed in church. Priests were murdered the same way Muslims have been murdered. Neither the president nor the vice president loves those things to happen. I don’t, you don’t but it has very little to do with our faith,” Mr Fashola said.
