Concerns that the Vice President-elect and Bola Tinubu, his boss, have a plan to destabilise Nigeria have been allayed by Senator Kashim Shettima on Saturday.
Divergent opinions have been expressed since Tinubu announced Shettima as his running partner last year. Some claim that the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) could be a plot to Islamize Nigeria.
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However, the incoming vice president assuaged such anxieties by stating that there was no plan to Islamize Africa’s most populous country while appearing at a lecture in Abuja on Saturday as part of the festivities surrounding Tinubu’s inauguration on May 29.
He described his principal as a Muslim who is married to a Christian and pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
Shettima said;
I was a child of necessity, there is no Islamisation agenda. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a Muslim who is married to a Christian, not only a Christian but a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
Someone who has not Islamised his family, people are alluding that he has the intention to Islamise the nation.
The Vice President-elect revealed that he deliberately picked an Igbo man of the Catholic faith to be his Chief Security Officer.
Also selected as his security aide is a Northerner to be his Aide De Camp (ADC), saying his decision was based on togetherness and inclusivity.
He further stressed;
Politics is about perception. As we begin the formation of a new administration, I deliberately picked an Igbo man, a Catholic, to be my Chief Security Officer.
For the purpose of inclusivity and togetherness, again I deliberately picked a Northern Christian to be my ADC. So the so-called founder of Boko Haram is going to be protected by…
