By Ikechukwu Okaforadi
Eleven days to the Presidential election, the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu/Kashim Shettima ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) got endorsement by a group, Clerics Congress of Nigeria.
Endorsements of the Tinubu/Shettima ticket by the group took place at Stakeholders Conference held at Nicon Luxury Hotel attended by representatives of both the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates of APC.
The Clerics led by Ali John Ali and Timothy Cheren, premised their endorsements of Tinubu / Shettima ticket on competence , capacity and required vision for progressive leadership and Nation building.
The speech reads in part “After a cursory look at all the presidential aspirants, and without any dint of sentiment attached, we have found one candidate suitable to deliver the required result needed to take our nation out of our present predicament and usher in the required development needed to take us to the next level.
“That candidate without any shadow of a doubt is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Our decision has been predicated on the indices of track record of past performance, ability to unite the country and fight insecurity, economic programme of development and the ability to build a sterling leadership succession.
“In all of these, Asiwaju towers high above the pack of other presidential candidates .
Looking at his track record in Lagos where he held sway as governor for eight years, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu succeeded immensely in turning Lagos into a mega city and an economic giant not just in Nigeria but Africa and the rest of the world.
“On the issues of Muslim and Muslim ticket which has engendered so much debate, we have carefully considered the issues that gave birth to the decision to select a Muslim as his Vice and came to the conclusion that the reasons were more about the strategy to win elections and have somebody he can be comfortable to work with, than of religious discrimination.”
