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The Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje has opened up on why the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu was advised to pick a Muslim as his running mate.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls Tinubu, a former Governor of Lagos State had picked the former Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election.
The development had sparked outrage among the Christian community in the country.
Ganduje, who addressed journalists at the Unguwar Sabo Juma’at Mosque in Osogbo, Osun State, yesterday said Tinubu was advised to pick a Muslim running mate in order to reduce the special priority given to religion in Nigerian politics.
He said rather than religion, the major concerns of Nigeria are economy, employment, and other developmental issues.
“We advised him (Tinubu) to pick a Muslim as his running mate to end the religious consideration shown in Nigeria’s politics.
“We, northern governors stand firmly that a presidential candidate must come from the South so as to do away with all these differences,” Ganduje said.