Immediate past Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the ‘bishops’ who attended the recent unveiling of Kashim Shettima as the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) might not be real bishops after all.
The former Minister, however, said they were Christians.
Recall that there had been wide criticism of the APC following the event, which made some people to allege that some persons who wore cassocks to the programme, appearing like bishops or other senior Christian clerics, were hired by the ruling Party.
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The incident had caused a stir at the entrance of the venue as the crowd there taunted them and shouted, “The bishops are here.”
Meanwhile, it was reported that the so-called bishops could not get seats at the main hall where the event held, as they were seen being ushered to the gallery which took care of the overflow.
But Amaechi while speaking, over the weekend, at an event to mark the 60th birthday of the General Overseer of Abundant Life Evangel Mission, Eugene Ogu, in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, said the persons in question were Christians but might not be bishops as portrayed.
His words, “Those bishops you saw (at Kashim Shettima’s unveiling in Abuja) may not be bishops, but they are Christians,” Amaechi said.
Rotimi Amaechi also said delegates, who sold their votes at the APC presidential primary election won by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, were already regretting doing so.
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Amaechi continued, “I don’t believe that is the solution to Nigeria’s problem — giving money. I hope you know. I give you N10 million now and when it finishes, what happens? The solution to Nigeria’s problem is that all of you must rise.
“God should save the ordinary Nigerian because they are the problem. Those who voted at the APC primary, who are they? The ordinary Nigerian. The small money they got solved their immediate problems.
“Now ‘oh we made a mistake,’ ‘we didn’t make a mistake.’ We are hearing different things. Pray for the leadership of the country, but also pray that ordinary Nigerians choose the right person to govern,” Amaechi was quoted to have said.