The Governor of Jigawa State, Muhammadu Abubakar Badaru has refuted the insinuations that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, would be a Southern President if elected.
Speaking at a town hall meeting between Tinubu and Muslim leaders from the North West geopolitical zone in Kano on Tuesday, Badaru said the APC flagbearer would be president to all Nigerians if elected in the forthcoming election.
Badaru stated that the activities of the former Governor of Lagos State clearly show he is not a betrayer, adding that his political pedigree vindicates him as not an ethnic and religious bigot.
The Jigawa governor added that everything Tinubu was doing during his presidential campaign was done actively with the full participation of himself, the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, and their Kaduna state counterpart, Nasir El-rufai.
He also refuted claims that the APC flagbearer is sick and unfit to lead the country, saying that the baseless allegations against Tinubu were mischievous creations by those who can not win elections.
He said, “Talking about his mental health and his fitness, our recent visits to Mecca on Ummara where Tinubu walked miles without joining a car and his performance of Rituals of Tawaf and Saai shows that he is not only healthy but mentally alert on issues.
Nigerians should know that the era of using sentiment, ethnic, and religious bigotry is over, all the talks and baseless allegations against Bola Tinubu were mischievous creations by those who can not win elections using basic democratic tenets to bring down the popularity of the APC candidate”.
Speaking on behalf of the clerics, Sheikh Qaribullah Nasiru Kabara, represented by Yahya Imam, told Tinubu that they were supporting him because he was a Muslim.
He said Islamic clerics were not supporting Tinubu for money but by being a Muslim and breaking the jinx of the Muslim-Christian ticket.
