Minister of State for Labour, Mr. Festus Keyamo SAN has said that wife of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju BolaAhmed Tinubu, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, would oversee the Aso Rock chapel if her husband is elected president in 2023.
Keyamo said this on a Channels Television programme, Political Paradigm, on Tuesday. The Minister is one of the spokespersons for the APC presidential candidate ahead of the next year’s general elections.
Keyamo made the comment in reaction to the party’s Muslim-Muslim ticket.
Recall that Asiwaju Tinubu had picked a former governor of Borno who’s also a Muslim, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election.
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The development elicited outrage from key stakeholders, particularly the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
But Keyamo said the decision of the Party was a strategy for winning the 2023 presidential election.
He said the presidential candidate’s family had always been multi-religious.
“It has nothing to do with unity, it’s just a winning strategy,” he said.
“It’s not a spit on the Christians. Muslims are a minority in the south and Asiwaju is Muslim from the south. Some Muslims are a minority in the North.
“Like I said, look at Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a person. Look at his record. He was one that returned all the mission schools to them in Lagos when he was governor.
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“For the churches, he returned the mission schools to them. He has a multi-religious home. Some of his children are Christians. His wife is a pastor.
“The chapel in the villa will be overly used because the wife automatically will be the pastor, attending that chapel. So the chapel will not be closed down. He will be using it when he is by the grace of God president of this country.”
In 2018, Tinubu’s wife, who is currently the senator representing Lagos central, was ordained as assistant pastor at Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).