By Adesina Soyooye
If the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is elected the President of Nigeria in 2023, he and his wife, Senator Remy Tinubu will govern Nigeria together irrespective of who the Vice President is. His wife will be the “de facto Deputy President.”
This elevation of Mrs Tinubu to the office of the Deputy President if her husband becomes the President, was made by the Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, a former Governor of Abia State.
He said this when he spoke to Reporters at the National Assembly in support of a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the APC.
Many people, especially, Christians, are against a Muslim-Muslim ticket because of the polarisation of religion in the country. The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has strongly warned against such a ticket. It said it portends danger.
But Kalu pointed out that such fears should not be entertained as Tinubu’s wife, who is a Pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, will be Nigeria’s de facto Deputy President.
He posited that APC would be politically naive to pick a Christian minority in the North to run with Tinubu, a Muslim minority in the South. It will be tough for two minorities to win the 2023 Presidential election for the APC Kalu insisted.
Mrs Tinubu, politically-savvy, is a third-time Senator. She is an Itshekiri from Delta State.
