Muslim-Muslim Ticket: I Did Not Declare Support For Shettima – Borno CAN Chairman Says
The Borno State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bishop Naga Mohammed, has declared being framed up with the story claiming his support for the choice of former Governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima as running mate to the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He said the development has so devastated him and now finds it difficult to trust speaking with journalists as he is not sure of what else they would write
Specifically, Bishop Mohammed described as untrue social media reports that he supported the choice of Shettima by the APC as the running mate to its presidential standard-bearer in the 2023 election, Tinubu.
He said that he neither granted an interview to any journalist nor issued any press statement to that effect.
The Borno CAN chairman, in an interview with The PUNCH, said the story which had gone viral was taken from what he said in 2017 when Boko Haram was devastating Borno State at a time when Shettima was the governor.
Bishop Mohammed said; “I have not granted an interview to anybody and never issued any statement. Was it not yesterday (Sunday) that they said they had appointed him (Shettima)? How come I granted an interview at the APC secretariat?”
“Nobody called me. No journalist called me, except when this thing happened, when the papers were carrying it viral, then people were calling me.
“Right now, I’m somehow angry and not even composed to talk very well. The story they are carrying was in 2017 when Boko Haram was devastating Borno when Kashim Shettima was the governor.
“They picked that story and I, being CAN chairman, they now leveled it against me. I am just framed up and I don’t even have trust speaking with journalists, including you, because I don’t know what else you will write,” he stressed. – (The Punch)
