AHEAD of the proclamation of the 10th National Assembly and as the race for its leadership reaches a crescendo, Vice President Kashim Shettima has restated his preference for a Southern Christian as senate president, even if it means he kneeling to beg the senators-elect see reason with him.
Speaking at an interaction with the senators in Abuja, Shettima said: “I’m ready to kneel and beg my colleagues for the sake of the nation. This is for the survival of this nation.
“Here we are with a Muslim President and a Muslim Vice President in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious polity like ours. Number 1, 2, all of the same faith, for God sake.
“Under the current dispensation, the worst, the most incompetent Southern Christian is better than the most puritanical Northern Muslim for the Presidency of the Senate.”
