Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State on Friday claimed that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has agreed to pick a Muslim vice-presidential candidate for Nigeria’s 2023 election.
Ganduje, who was speaking during a gathering of clerics at the Government House as part of activities to mark Eid El Kabir, said: “We have advised him to pick a Muslim deputy and he has agreed. A Muslim-Muslim ticket is a reality. It is not something new in Nigeria.”
The Governor asked the clerics to pray for Tinubu to emerge as Nigeria’s president come 2023.
Meanwhile, Tinubu left France yesterday, where he had travelled to for “important meetings”, for Lagos.
The APC presidential candidate, via his official Twitter handle, Friday evening, shared a tweet, “Heading home,” with a link to his Instagram page showing him inside an aircraft.
Tinubu departed Nigeria shortly after he held a closed-door meeting with Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on June 27.
A statement issued by his spokesman, Tunde Rahman, in Abuja then said: “He (Tinubu) is off to Paris, France to hold some important meetings. The APC standard-bearer is expected back in the country shortly.”
Ibrahim Shuaibu in Kano
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