The Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, has reacted after the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu picked Kashim Shettima as his running mate.
Tinubu on Sunday confirmed the selection of the former Governor of Borno as his running mate during an interview with journalists after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina State.
Before the selection of Shettimato the the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) had vehemently rejected the idea of a single-faith-ticket, urging political parties to focus more on competence than sentiment.
Tinubu, who ended with a Muslim-Muslim ticket has, however, defended his reasons for not picking a Christian as his running mate.
But speaking on the development in an interview with The Punch, Kukah stated that Tinubu chose Shettima because he thinks the lawmaker will give him a fair chance in the 2023 presidential election.