The Bola Tinubu-Kashim Shettima ticket was advised against, according to President Muhammadu Buhari, who has refuted this.
After meeting with Buhari in Daura, Katsina state, the former governor of Lagos declared the former governor and senator of Borno as his running mate.
The Department of State Service (DSS) issued a warning regarding the Muslim-Muslim APC ticket on Friday, according to an article in Peoples Gazette (APC).
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But in a response, the President refuted the report through spokesman Garba Shehu.
The media aide advised 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”.
Senior security officials are reportedly concerned that the Tinubu-Shettima ticket could spark a fresh sectarian conflict that would destabilize Nigeria.
It was claimed that Babagana Monguno, the National Security Advisor, submitted the DSS paper to the President.
It advised Tinubu to think carefully about his choice’s security ramifications before making it public.
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“Our understanding is that the alliance will destabilise Nigeria and embolden attacks on Christian citizens from their fellow Muslim citizens.
“The distrust Christians are likely to harbour against a presidency occupied by two Muslims won’t make our work easy at national security level”, an intelligence operative was quoted saying.
According to the official, Buhari was not a party to the negotiations that resulted in Tinubu’s announcement of Shettima.
After Tinubu was chosen as the APC presidential nominee in early June, he reportedly started looking for a Muslim running mate and ordered the intelligence assessment.
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