Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has told the Christian community in Nigeria and in the Diaspora that the same-faith presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was not calculated to undermine the Christians in the country.
The APC has produced a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a Muslim from South West, as its presidential candidate, and a former governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, as its vice presidential candidate. The development met a stiff objection from the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) before the emergence of Shettima, who is from North East.
Akeredolu gave the assurance to the Christian community on Sunday at the 40th Holy Ghost Convention Dinner of The Sword of the Spirit Ministries, held at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Agbowo, Ibadan, Oyo State. The dinner was graced by many ministers of God, including the the founder of the Christ Life Church, Bishop Wale Oke, who is the current National President of PFN; and former Prelate, Methodist Church Nigeria, Most Rev’d Sunday Ola-Makinde.
The governor, who appealed to Christians not to be angry with APC, stated that he too was worried like millions of Christians in the country about the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of his party, the APC, saying: “I discussed with Bishop Francis Wale Oke that presidency must come to the South.”
Take it or leave it, it is the minimum we can get. It must come to the South.
“The North cannot produce President for eight years and still want to retain it for another eight years. It is not going to work.
“That is why under the Southern Governors’ Forum, where, luckily, God made me the chairman, I kept hammering on that. It must come to the South. And when it also got to our party in APC, we fought that it must come to the South.
