I was misquoted on Tinubu/Abacha comparison -Shettima

All Progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, has said he was misquoted on a recent comment in which he said Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate has things in common with Sani Abacha, the country’s late military dictator. Speaking on Thursday at the 96th-anniversary celebration of the Yoruba Tennis Club in Ikoyi, Lagos state, Shettima was quoted as saying that Nigeria needs the “hospitality” of Abacha, former military ruler. However, Shettima had said the country needs a president with “a dose of ruthlessness and taciturnity” of Abacha. The…

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‘Not our members,’ CAN disown clerics seen at Shettima’s unveiling

The Christian Association of Nigeria, the umbrella body of all Christians in Nigeria, on Wednesday dissociated itself from Bishops who attended the unveiling of the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, describing them as fakes and desperados who went there for themselves. The organisation said that although the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was free to “hire mechanics and other artisans and sew clerical garments for them”, that effort would only add to their many ropes but would not change the need for…

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