Vice President Kashim Shettima’s support for the candidacy of Senator Godswill Akpabio as President of the 10th Senate is being misconstrued to suit an agenda that sabotages Nigeria’s collective bid for unity, the Presidency has said.
This was contained in a statement signed on Monday by the State House Director of Information , Olusola Abiola.
But a northern socio-political organisation, under the aegis of the Northern Elders Forum, knocked Vice President over his alleged comments that “under the current dispensation, the worst incompetent Southern Christian is better than the most puritanical Northern Muslim for the Presidency of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.
It said President Bola Tinubu has wholeheartedly reassured the country of his dedication to providing every group with equal representation, which has resonated with the Vice President who shares the same commitment to this honourable endeavour. “It is alarming that such an unambiguous plea has been unfairly misconstrued to imply that the Vice President said the most incompetent Christian candidate is superior to a Muslim candidate.
Therefore, the Vice President distanced himself from the “wrong and dangerous” inferences drawn by the public from his remarks.
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