Details of the conversations between Arewa Church leaders and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate, under the auspices of the Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria have surfaced.
According to an earlier report from Anaedoonline.ng, Tinubu met with the Bishops last Thursday at the APC Presidential Campaign Headquarters in Abuja to discuss his choice of Kashim Shettima, the former governor of Borno State, as his running mate.
According to Tinubu, the nation’s political and socioeconomic problems can only be solved by competent people.
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He claimed that he has always been a friend of the Christian community and that his record, plans, and agenda for improving Nigeria should be taken into consideration.
According to a source at the meeting, the majority of those there had objected to Tinubu’s choice of Senator Kashim Shettima, a fellow Muslim from the North, as his running partner.
According to the insider, the Pentecostal bishops were gathering for the first time to discuss the APC candidate’s plans for Christians in the North as well as the reasoning behind his “divisive” decision.
The source revealed that they questioned Tinubu on three issues that were thought to be of vital importance to Christians in the North, but were unimpressed by some of his responses.
The source said: “We were led to the meeting by the Deputy President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Archbishop John Praise, who made it clear from the onset that it was not an endorsement event, but a forum to listen to Asiwaju with a view to understanding why he paid deaf ears to the outcry against his party’s Muslim-Muslim ticket.
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“To buttress his point and set the tone for the engagement, he quoted John 7:51 which reads, ‘’Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him find out what he has been doing?’’
“We asked Tinubu three burning questions agitating the minds of Christians in the North. First, we asked him: What are your plans for Christians in the North in light of your insistence on picking a Muslim vice-presidential candidate from our region?
“We also asked him to respond to the remarks by Shettima at the NBA Conference that he will oversee security while Tinubu will direct the economy. Finally, we asked the APC presidential candidate for his views on the incessant attacks on Christian communities in the North.”
Multiples sources told Newsmen that Tinubu spoke of the Muslim-Muslim controversy in a bid to allay the fears of the Northern Christians.
One of the sources said: “For our first poser to him, Asiwaju said much, but to summarise his response, he simply told us he cannot talk about sharing a cake that has not been baked.
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“His response to our second question was that the Constitution specified the roles and responsibilities of the President and his vice. So, there is no doubt about who will do what in the office if they win 2023.”
On the killing of Christians in the North and possible Islamisation, another source said Tinubu said he would not be part of such an extremist agenda, stating that he has not Islamised his immediate family and wouldn’t do so to over 200 million persons.
Another source added: “Some of us are not satisfied with his reasons for picking Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate. He failed to convincingly justify the fact that in all the eight Northern states dominated by Christians there was no qualified, politically exposed and upright Christian fit for the office of the vice president of Nigeria.
“We believe that Tinubu himself, like most of us at the meeting, is at a loss on how to convince Christians that he will not sideline the Church.
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“How can we work for a presidential candidate who appears to be already sidelining people that are not of his faith?”
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