By Adesina Soyooye
The Presidency says the claim that the Directorate of State Services, DSS, sent an Advisory to President Muhammadu Buhari on the dangers of a Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is absolutely false.
The news of the Advisory against a Muslim-Muslim ticket had gone viral on Friday.
But in a statement signed by Garba Shehu, President Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, the Presidency warned that the newspaper from which the story first emanated, should be stayed away from as it has become “a deadly virus.”
The full text reads:
THERE IS NO DSS ADVISORY BEFORE PRESIDENT BUHARI ON APC RUNNING MATE, IT’S A FALSE STORY
“We wish to advise well-meaning Nigerians to ignore a laughably puerile report by an apparently pirate online newspaper seeking to sow division and chaos on the choice of Governor Kashim Shettima as the Running Mate of our Party’s Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola
Ahmed Tinubu.
“This so-called newspaper is like a deadly virus. Stay safe by keeping away from its toxic reports.”
The candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu had, to the shock and anger of not a few people, especially Christians, chosen the former Governor of Borno State, and Senator representing Borno Central, Senator Kashim Shettima, a fellow Muslim, as his running mate. The expectation was that to keep the usual religious balance, he should have picked a Christian.
Tinubu’s choice has sparked a run in the APC.
The official presentation of Shettima was suddenly called off on Thursday for a date yet to be announced.
